cabal-debian command not found

Introduction

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

cabal-debian: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cabal-debian: command not found

Solutions to cabal-debian: command not found

How To Fix cabal-debian: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cabal-debian is provided by cabal-debian package.

cabal-debian is:

Tool for creating debianizations of Haskell packages based on the .cabal file. If apt-file is installed it will use it to discover what is the Debian package name of a C library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cabal-debian

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

You can also use apt command to install cabal-debian.

sudo apt -y install cabal-debian

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

sudo aptitude install cabal-debian

Summary

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