git-build-recipe command not found

Introduction

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

git-build-recipe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-build-recipe: command not found

Solutions to git-build-recipe: command not found

How To Fix git-build-recipe: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-build-recipe is provided by git-build-recipe package.

git-build-recipe is:

git-build-recipe takes a “recipe” which specifies several Git branches to combine in a certain fashion as input for a Debian-format source package, and provides the resulting branch as output.

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-build-recipe

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

You can also use apt command to install git-build-recipe.

sudo apt -y install git-build-recipe

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

sudo aptitude install git-build-recipe

Summary

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