debsums command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix debsums command not found error message

Introduction

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

debsums: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: debsums: command not found

In Ubuntu debsums is provided by debsums package.

debsums is:

debsums can verify the integrity of installed package files against MD5 checksums installed by the package, or generated from a .deb archive.

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

sudo apt-get -y install debsums

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

You can also use apt command to install debsums.

sudo apt -y install debsums

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

sudo aptitude install debsums

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