deb-new-upstream command not found

Introduction

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

deb-new-upstream: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: deb-new-upstream: command not found

Solutions to deb-new-upstream: command not found

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

In Ubuntu deb-new-upstream is provided by brz-debian package.

brz-debian is:

brz-debian is a plugin for the breezy version control system that helps to automate the task of maintaining Debian packages using breezy. It is similar in intent to cvs-buildpackage, svn-buildpackage and the similar scripts.

It builds a Debian package from a branch, optionally using a separate upstream tarball.

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

sudo apt-get -y install brz-debian

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

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

sudo apt -y install brz-debian

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

sudo aptitude install brz-debian

Summary

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