debootstrap command not found

Introduction

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

debootstrap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: debootstrap: command not found

Solutions to debootstrap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu debootstrap is provided by debootstrap package.

debootstrap is:

debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch, without requiring the availability of dpkg or apt. It does this by downloading .deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them into a directory which can eventually be chrooted into.

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

sudo apt-get -y install debootstrap

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

You can also use apt command to install debootstrap.

sudo apt -y install debootstrap

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

sudo aptitude install debootstrap

Summary

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