avrdude command not found

Introduction

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

avrdude: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: avrdude: command not found

Solutions to avrdude: command not found

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

In Ubuntu avrdude is provided by avrdude package.

avrdude is:

AVRDUDE is an open source utility to download/upload/manipulate the ROM and EEPROM contents of AVR microcontrollers using the in-system programming technique (ISP).

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

sudo apt-get -y install avrdude

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

You can also use apt command to install avrdude.

sudo apt -y install avrdude

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

sudo aptitude install avrdude

Summary

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