apt-venv command not found

Introduction

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

apt-venv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apt-venv: command not found

Solutions to apt-venv: command not found

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

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

apt-venv is:

apt-venv creates a sort of virtual environment in the user home directory, forcing apt to run under some custom option.

A simple use case is collect information about packages in different Debian and Ubuntu releases without surfing the web, just calling apt-cache through the virtual environment.

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

sudo apt-get -y install apt-venv

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

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

sudo apt -y install apt-venv

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

sudo aptitude install apt-venv

Summary

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