debian-builder command not found

Introduction

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

debian-builder: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: debian-builder: command not found

Solutions to debian-builder: command not found

How To Fix debian-builder: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu debian-builder is provided by debian-builder package.

debian-builder is:

This is a simple tool which is designed to allow a local administrator to rebuild individual Debian packages from their source code.

With the aid of a few included wrapper scripts this allows automatically rebuilding a package and all its dependencies.

Note: This software is not designed to enhance your installation by producing optimized binaries, however this may be achieved with the aid of companion packages such as ‘pentium-builder’, or ‘athlon-builder’.

The prime purpose of this package is to ease the testing of compiler patches such as the Stack Smashing Protection patch available from IBM.

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

sudo apt-get -y install debian-builder

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

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

sudo apt -y install debian-builder

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

sudo aptitude install debian-builder

Summary

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