botch-cross command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix botch-cross command not found error message

Introduction

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

botch-cross: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: botch-cross: command not found

Solutions to botch-cross: command not found

How To Fix botch-cross: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu botch-cross is provided by botch package.

botch is:

botch is a collection of tools to create and analyze dependency graphs. This task is facilitated by a range of individual tools which use the deb822 and graphml formats to exchange information with each other.

The tools installed by this package provide these features:

  • analyze graphs
  • transform Packages and Sources control files
  • create graphs of different types
  • analysis of Packages and Sources control files
  • handling of botch-internal formats
  • dose3 wrappers
  • set operations on Packages or Sources files
  • create build orders
  • conversion of graphs
  • shell scripts connecting the tools for meaningful operations
  • extract regions from graphs

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

sudo apt-get -y install botch

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

You can also use apt command to install botch.

sudo apt -y install botch

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

sudo aptitude install botch

Summary

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