exe_update command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix exe_update command not found error message

Introduction

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

exe_update: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: exe_update: command not found

Solutions to exe_update: command not found

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

In Ubuntu exe_update is provided by libwin32-exe-perl package.

libwin32-exe-perl is:

Win32::Exe parses and manipulating Win32 PE/COFF executable headers, including version information, icons, manifest and other resources. The module Win32::Exe::Manifest can be used for manifest handling.

A script exe_update is provided for simple file updates.

Also, please see the test files in the source distributions t/ directory for examples of using this module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libwin32-exe-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libwin32-exe-perl.

sudo apt -y install libwin32-exe-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libwin32-exe-perl

Summary

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