tempfile command not found

Introduction

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

tempfile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tempfile: command not found

Solutions to tempfile: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tempfile is provided by debianutils package.

debianutils is:

This package provides a number of small utilities which are used primarily by the installation scripts of Debian packages, although you may use them directly.

The specific utilities included are: add-shell installkernel ischroot remove-shell run-parts savelog tempfile update-shells which

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

sudo apt-get -y install debianutils

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

You can also use apt command to install debianutils.

sudo apt -y install debianutils

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

sudo aptitude install debianutils

Summary

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