usbboot command not found

Introduction

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

usbboot: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: usbboot: command not found

Solutions to usbboot: command not found

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

In Ubuntu usbboot is provided by linaro-boot-utils package.

linaro-boot-utils is:

This package contains utilities useful for booting development boards with corrupt or no boot media over a USB or serial connection to a development host.

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

sudo apt-get -y install linaro-boot-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install linaro-boot-utils.

sudo apt -y install linaro-boot-utils

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

sudo aptitude install linaro-boot-utils

Summary

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