git-flow-init command not found

Introduction

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

git-flow-init: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-flow-init: command not found

Solutions to git-flow-init: command not found

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

In Ubuntu git-flow-init is provided by git-flow package.

git-flow is:

A set of scripts that provide high-level repository operations for managing feature/release/hotfix branches in a Git repository, particularly suited to be utilised to follow Vincent Driessen’s branching model, described at https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/.

This package follows the AVH edition.

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-flow

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

You can also use apt command to install git-flow.

sudo apt -y install git-flow

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

sudo aptitude install git-flow

Summary

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