debuerreotype-tar command not found

Introduction

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

debuerreotype-tar: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: debuerreotype-tar: command not found

Solutions to debuerreotype-tar: command not found

How To Fix debuerreotype-tar: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu debuerreotype-tar is provided by debuerreotype package.

debuerreotype is:

A set of scripts for building reproducible Debian rootfs tarballs based on snapshot.debian.org, especially for the purposes of Docker base images.

The goal is to create an auditable, reproducible process for creating rootfs tarballs (especially for use in Docker) of Debian releases, based on point-in-time snapshots from snapshot.debian.org.

The only strictly Docker-specific script is debuerreotype-minimizing-config, which applies many configuration tweaks which are useful for Docker users and may or may not be useful outside of that context.

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

sudo apt-get -y install debuerreotype

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

You can also use apt command to install debuerreotype.

sudo apt -y install debuerreotype

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

sudo aptitude install debuerreotype

Summary

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