apt-mirror command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix apt-mirror command not found error message

Introduction

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

apt-mirror: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apt-mirror: command not found

Solutions to apt-mirror: command not found

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

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

apt-mirror is:

A small and efficient tool that lets you mirror a part of or the whole Debian GNU/Linux distribution or any other apt sources.

Main features:

  • It uses a config similar to apts <sources.list>
  • It’s fully pool comply
  • It supports multithreaded downloading
  • It supports multiple architectures at the same time
  • It can automatically remove unneeded files
  • It works well on overloaded channel to internet
  • It never produces an inconsistent mirror including while mirroring
  • It works on all POSIX compliant systems with perl and wget

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

sudo apt-get -y install apt-mirror

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

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

sudo apt -y install apt-mirror

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

sudo aptitude install apt-mirror

Summary

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