py2dsc-deb command not found

Introduction

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

py2dsc-deb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: py2dsc-deb: command not found

Solutions to py2dsc-deb: command not found

How To Fix py2dsc-deb: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu py2dsc-deb is provided by python3-stdeb package.

python3-stdeb is:

This package provides distutils commands to produce Debian packages from Python packages. Automatic defaults are provided for the Debian package, but many aspects of the resulting package can be customized via a configuration file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-stdeb

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-stdeb.

sudo apt -y install python3-stdeb

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

sudo aptitude install python3-stdeb

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix py2dsc-deb command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.