grub-install command not found

Introduction

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

grub-install: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: grub-install: command not found

Solutions to grub-install: command not found

How To Fix grub-install: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu grub-install is provided by grub2-common package.

grub2-common is:

This package contains common files shared by the distinct flavours of GRUB. The files in this package are specific to GRUB 2, and would break GRUB Legacy if installed on the same system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install grub2-common

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

You can also use apt command to install grub2-common.

sudo apt -y install grub2-common

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

sudo aptitude install grub2-common

Summary

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