debarchiver command not found

Introduction

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

debarchiver: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: debarchiver: command not found

Solutions to debarchiver: command not found

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

In Ubuntu debarchiver is provided by debarchiver package.

debarchiver is:

This tool can sort packages into a directory structure that apt-get and similar tools can use as an installation source (arranged in an old-style simple repository layout without package pools). It is meant to be used by administrators who need special packages, or tweaked versions to ease administration.

Package files placed in debarchiver’s incoming directory along with the corresponding generated “.changes” file will be sorted by a cronjob into the appropriate directory of the repository.

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

sudo apt-get -y install debarchiver

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

You can also use apt command to install debarchiver.

sudo apt -y install debarchiver

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

sudo aptitude install debarchiver

Summary

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