cowbuilder command not found

Introduction

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

cowbuilder: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cowbuilder: command not found

Solutions to cowbuilder: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cowbuilder is provided by cowbuilder package.

cowbuilder is:

‘cowbuilder’ command is a wrapper for pbuilder which allows using pbuilder-like interface over cowdancer environment.

pbuilder is a tool for building and testing Debian package inside a clean chroot, and cowbuilder allows chroot to be recreated using hard-linked copies with copy-on-write, which makes creation and destruction of chroots fast.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cowbuilder

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

You can also use apt command to install cowbuilder.

sudo apt -y install cowbuilder

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

sudo aptitude install cowbuilder

Summary

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