abootimg-unpack-initrd command not found

Introduction

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

abootimg-unpack-initrd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: abootimg-unpack-initrd: command not found

Solutions to abootimg-unpack-initrd: command not found

How To Fix abootimg-unpack-initrd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu abootimg-unpack-initrd is provided by abootimg package.

abootimg is:

Android devices use a special partition format to boot any operating system on the devices. These boot-images contain a kernel image, a ramdisk, optionally a 2nd stage boot loader and the commandline passed to the kernel when booting. The original mkbootimg from Android can only create these images where abootimg can also extract and modify them. Handling android boot images is necessary when bringing other operating systems to android devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install abootimg

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

You can also use apt command to install abootimg.

sudo apt -y install abootimg

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

sudo aptitude install abootimg

Summary

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