configure-debian command not found

Introduction

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

configure-debian: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: configure-debian: command not found

Solutions to configure-debian: command not found

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

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

configure-debian is:

configure-debian is a program which presents a list of packages which use Debconf, Debian’s configuration management system.

Debconf provides first-time installation wizards that run when a package is installed. You may reconfigure these packages at a later time, if you wish, and configure-debian makes that very easy.

configure-debian splits the package lists into the subsections which make up the Debian archive, such as x11, base, gnome, or kde.

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

sudo apt-get -y install configure-debian

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

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

sudo apt -y install configure-debian

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

sudo aptitude install configure-debian

Summary

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