dh_pyppd command not found

Introduction

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

dh_pyppd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dh_pyppd: command not found

Solutions to dh_pyppd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dh_pyppd is provided by pyppd package.

pyppd is:

pyppd is a CUPS PPD generator. It holds an compressed archive of PPDs, which can be listed and retrieved only when needed by CUPS, saving disk space.

This tool is mostly useful as build-dependency for printing driver packages. For this use, it provides a Debian-specific dh_pyppd Debhelper addon that handles the pyppd launch and the cleanup after it.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pyppd

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

You can also use apt command to install pyppd.

sudo apt -y install pyppd

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

sudo aptitude install pyppd

Summary

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