vbutil_kernel command not found

Introduction

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

vbutil_kernel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vbutil_kernel: command not found

Solutions to vbutil_kernel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vbutil_kernel is provided by vboot-kernel-utils package.

vboot-kernel-utils is:

This package provides the futility program (including the vbutil_kernel program required to sign custom kernels in order to get them booted by Chrome OS devices (i.e. Chromebooks)).

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

sudo apt-get -y install vboot-kernel-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install vboot-kernel-utils.

sudo apt -y install vboot-kernel-utils

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

sudo aptitude install vboot-kernel-utils

Summary

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