dpkg-cross command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dpkg-cross command not found error message

Introduction

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

dpkg-cross: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dpkg-cross: command not found

In Ubuntu dpkg-cross is provided by dpkg-cross package.

dpkg-cross is:

dpkg-cross is a tool for installing libraries and headers from packages which have not been converted for Multi-Arch to support cross compiling.

This package contains only the deprecated dpkg-cross binary. Future releases will drop the dpkg-cross and libdebian-dpkgcross-perl binary packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dpkg-cross

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

You can also use apt command to install dpkg-cross.

sudo apt -y install dpkg-cross

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

sudo aptitude install dpkg-cross

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