buildd-synclogs command not found

Introduction

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

buildd-synclogs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: buildd-synclogs: command not found

Solutions to buildd-synclogs: command not found

How To Fix buildd-synclogs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu buildd-synclogs is provided by xbuilder package.

xbuilder is:

This package contains scripts to run a batch-job of cross-builds, using various methods, on a list of source packages. It also has a simple cross-bootstraping helper (using build-profiles), and scripts for generating html tables summarising the results of a build run, and generating the packagelists to build.

It is not a proper buildd, or smart in any way, just really a collection of scripts wrtten for a particular task. Nevertheless they remain useful for this particular job.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xbuilder

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

You can also use apt command to install xbuilder.

sudo apt -y install xbuilder

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

sudo aptitude install xbuilder

Summary

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