aptly command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix aptly command not found error message

Introduction

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

aptly: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aptly: command not found

In Ubuntu aptly is provided by aptly package.

aptly is:

It offers several features making it easy to manage Debian package repositories:

make mirrors of remote Debian/Ubuntu repositories, limiting by components/architectures
take snapshots of mirrors at any point in time, fixing state of repository at some moment of time
publish snapshot as Debian repository, ready to be consumed by apt
controlled update of one or more packages in snapshot from upstream mirror, tracking dependencies
merge two or more snapshots into one

This is the main package, it contains the aptly command-line utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install aptly

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

You can also use apt command to install aptly.

sudo apt -y install aptly

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

sudo aptitude install aptly

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