dimstrap command not found

Introduction

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

dimstrap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dimstrap: command not found

Solutions to dimstrap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dimstrap is provided by xbuilder package.

xbuilder is:

This package contains scripts to run a batch-job of cross-builds, using various methods, on a list of source packages. It also has a simple cross-bootstraping helper (using build-profiles), and scripts for generating html tables summarising the results of a build run, and generating the packagelists to build.

It is not a proper buildd, or smart in any way, just really a collection of scripts wrtten for a particular task. Nevertheless they remain useful for this particular job.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xbuilder

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

You can also use apt command to install xbuilder.

sudo apt -y install xbuilder

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

sudo aptitude install xbuilder

Summary

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