build-simple-cdd command not found

Introduction

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

build-simple-cdd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: build-simple-cdd: command not found

Solutions to build-simple-cdd: command not found

How To Fix build-simple-cdd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu build-simple-cdd is provided by simple-cdd package.

simple-cdd is:

Simple-CDD is a limited though relatively easy tool to create a customized debian-installer CD.

It includes simple mechanisms to create “profiles” that define common system configurations, which can be selected during system installation. Simple-CDD also makes it easy to build CDs with language and country settings pre-configured.

This can be used to create a crude “Custom Debian Distribution” using packages from Debian, with pre-configuration of packages that use debconf. Custom configuration scripts can be specified to handle packages that don’t support debconf pre-configuration.

Testing CD images with qemu is also made simple with a provided script.

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

sudo apt-get -y install simple-cdd

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

You can also use apt command to install simple-cdd.

sudo apt -y install simple-cdd

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

sudo aptitude install simple-cdd

Summary

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