check-support-status command not found

Introduction

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

check-support-status: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: check-support-status: command not found

Solutions to check-support-status: command not found

How To Fix check-support-status: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu check-support-status is provided by debian-security-support package.

debian-security-support is:

For some Debian packages, it is not feasible to maintain full security support for all use cases through the full distribution release cycle.

This package provides a program to identify installed packages for which support has had to be limited or prematurely ended, and to alert the administrator.

New versions of this package with updated checklists will be provided via standard and/or extended security support.

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

sudo apt-get -y install debian-security-support

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

You can also use apt command to install debian-security-support.

sudo apt -y install debian-security-support

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

sudo aptitude install debian-security-support

Summary

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