apt-listdifferences command not found

Introduction

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

apt-listdifferences: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apt-listdifferences: command not found

Solutions to apt-listdifferences: command not found

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

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

apt-listdifferences is:

apt-listdifferences will show the differences, or patches, between the sources for all packages as they get updated. This makes it easy to review source changes that have been included in new package updates.

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

sudo apt-get -y install apt-listdifferences

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

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

sudo apt -y install apt-listdifferences

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

sudo aptitude install apt-listdifferences

Summary

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