patchelf command not found

Introduction

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

patchelf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: patchelf: command not found

Solutions to patchelf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu patchelf is provided by patchelf package.

patchelf is:

PatchELF is a simple utility for modifying existing ELF executables and libraries. In particular, it can do the following:

• Change the dynamic loader (“ELF interpreter”) of executables
• Change the RPATH of executables and libraries
• Remove declared dependencies on dynamic libraries (DT_NEEDED entries)

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

sudo apt-get -y install patchelf

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

You can also use apt command to install patchelf.

sudo apt -y install patchelf

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

sudo aptitude install patchelf

Summary

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