chrpath command not found

Introduction

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

chrpath: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: chrpath: command not found

Solutions to chrpath: command not found

How To Fix chrpath: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu chrpath is provided by chrpath package.

chrpath is:

chrpath allows you to change the rpath (where the application looks for libraries) in an application. It does not (yet) allow you to add an rpath if there isn’t one already.

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

sudo apt-get -y install chrpath

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

You can also use apt command to install chrpath.

sudo apt -y install chrpath

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

sudo aptitude install chrpath

Summary

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