bossac command not found

Introduction

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

bossac: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bossac: command not found

Solutions to bossac: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bossac is provided by bossa-cli package.

bossa-cli is:

BOSSA is a flash programming utility for Atmel’s SAM family of flash-based ARM microcontrollers. The motivation behind BOSSA is to create a simple, easy-to- use, open source utility to replace Atmel’s SAM-BA software.

This package contains the BOSSA command line interface and interactive shell (i.e., bossac and bossash).

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

sudo apt-get -y install bossa-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install bossa-cli.

sudo apt -y install bossa-cli

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

sudo aptitude install bossa-cli

Summary

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