apt-src command not found

Introduction

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

apt-src: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apt-src: command not found

Solutions to apt-src: command not found

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

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

apt-src is:

apt-src is a command line interface for downloading, installing, upgrading, and tracking Debian source packages. It makes source package management feel a lot like using apt to manage binary packages, and is being used as a testbed to work on adding source dependencies to Debian.

It can be run as a normal user, or as root. If you want a convenient way to track updates to packages while preserving your local modifications, this is a way to do that.

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

sudo apt-get -y install apt-src

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

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

sudo apt -y install apt-src

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

sudo aptitude install apt-src

Summary

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