fdroid command not found

Introduction

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

fdroid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fdroid: command not found

Solutions to fdroid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fdroid is provided by fdroidserver package.

fdroidserver is:

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

The F-Droid server tools provide various scripts and tools that are used to maintain the main F-Droid application repository. You can use these same tools to create your own additional or alternative repository for publishing, or to assist in creating, testing and submitting metadata to the main repository.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fdroidserver

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

You can also use apt command to install fdroidserver.

sudo apt -y install fdroidserver

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

sudo aptitude install fdroidserver

Summary

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