apt-clone command not found

Introduction

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

apt-clone: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apt-clone: command not found

Solutions to apt-clone: command not found

How To Fix apt-clone: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu apt-clone is provided by apt-clone package.

apt-clone is:

This package can be used to clone/restore the packages on a apt based system. It will save/restore the packages, sources.list, keyring and automatic-installed states. It can also save/restore no longer downloadable packages using dpkg-repack.

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

sudo apt-get -y install apt-clone

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

You can also use apt command to install apt-clone.

sudo apt -y install apt-clone

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

sudo aptitude install apt-clone

Summary

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