dc-tool command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dc-tool command not found error message

Introduction

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

dc-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dc-tool: command not found

In Ubuntu dc-tool is provided by python3-debiancontributors package.

python3-debiancontributors is:

This module contains the code to submit and parse contributions to contributors.debian.org.

It can be used to prepare submissions and submit them to the site, and it is used by the site to parse and validate them.

This package contains the Python3 version of the code.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-debiancontributors

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-debiancontributors.

sudo apt -y install python3-debiancontributors

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

sudo aptitude install python3-debiancontributors

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