autopkgtest command not found

Introduction

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

autopkgtest: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: autopkgtest: command not found

Solutions to autopkgtest: command not found

How To Fix autopkgtest: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu autopkgtest is provided by autopkgtest package.

autopkgtest is:

autopkgtest runs tests on binary packages. The tests are run on the package as installed on a testbed system (which may be found via a virtualisation or containment system). The tests are expected to be supplied in the corresponding Debian source package.

See autopkgtest(1) and /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest. Depending on which virtualization server you want to use, you need to install additional packages (schroot, lxc, lxd, or qemu-system)

For generating tests of well-known source packages such as Perl and Ruby libraries you should install the autodep8 package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install autopkgtest

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

You can also use apt command to install autopkgtest.

sudo apt -y install autopkgtest

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

sudo aptitude install autopkgtest

Summary

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