aptly-publisher command not found

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

Introduction

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

aptly-publisher: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aptly-publisher: command not found

In Ubuntu aptly-publisher is provided by aptly-publisher package.

aptly-publisher is:

This tool allows one to create aptly multi-component publishes from YAML definition of repositories and mirrors

Features:

create or update publish from latest snapshots
- it takes configuration in yaml format which defines what to publish and how
- expected snapshot format is <name>-<timestamp>
promote publish
- use source publish snapshots to create or update another publish (eg. testing -> stable)
cleanup unused snapshots

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

sudo apt-get -y install aptly-publisher

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

You can also use apt command to install aptly-publisher.

sudo apt -y install aptly-publisher

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

sudo aptitude install aptly-publisher

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