deb-enable-rrr command not found

Introduction

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

deb-enable-rrr: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: deb-enable-rrr: command not found

Solutions to deb-enable-rrr: command not found

How To Fix deb-enable-rrr: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu deb-enable-rrr is provided by python3-debmutate package.

python3-debmutate is:

Debmutate is a set of Python modules for manipulating the control files of Debian packages, with the ability to preserve the existing formatting of the control files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-debmutate

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-debmutate

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

sudo aptitude install python3-debmutate

Summary

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