db_upgrade command not found

Introduction

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

db_upgrade: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: db_upgrade: command not found

Solutions to db_upgrade: command not found

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

In Ubuntu db_upgrade is provided by db-util package.

db-util is:

This empty package depends on the recommended utilities package containing different tools for manipulating databases and installs unversioned links to current database utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install db-util

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

You can also use apt command to install db-util.

sudo apt -y install db-util

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

sudo aptitude install db-util

Summary

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