debdeltas command not found

Introduction

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

debdeltas: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: debdeltas: command not found

Solutions to debdeltas: command not found

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

In Ubuntu debdeltas is provided by debdelta package.

debdelta is:

debdelta is a program suite designed to compute changes between Debian packages. These changes (deltas) are similar to the output of the “diff” program in that they may be used to store and transmit only the changes between Debian packages.

This suite contains ‘debdelta-upgrade’, that downloads deltas and use them to create all Debian packages needed for an ‘apt-get upgrade’. It may be used in a Debian/unstable host (to speed up download of new packages), or in a Debian/stable host (for security updates).

Similarly, when this package is installed, the ‘cupt’ package manager will use deltas to upgrade the host.

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

sudo apt-get -y install debdelta

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

You can also use apt command to install debdelta.

sudo apt -y install debdelta

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

sudo aptitude install debdelta

Summary

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