changestool command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

changestool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: changestool: command not found

Solutions to changestool: command not found

How To Fix changestool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu changestool is provided by reprepro package.

reprepro is:

reprepro is a tool to manage a repository of Debian packages (.deb, .udeb, .dsc, …). It stores files either being injected manually or downloaded from some other repository (partially) mirrored into one pool/ hierarchy. Managed packages and files are stored in a Berkeley DB, so no database server is needed. Checking signatures of mirrored repositories and creating signatures of the generated Package indices is supported.

This package also contains the changestool and rredtool helpers.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install reprepro

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install reprepro.

sudo apt -y install reprepro

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install reprepro

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix changestool command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.