debtags command not found

Introduction

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

debtags: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: debtags: command not found

Solutions to debtags: command not found

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

In Ubuntu debtags is provided by debtags package.

debtags is:

debtags extracts tag information from the apt database and makes it available to the system, either in /var/lib/debtags/debtags or via apt-xapian-index.

Package tags are categories for Debian packages.

debtags also provides some handy command to query tag information.

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

sudo apt-get -y install debtags

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

You can also use apt command to install debtags.

sudo apt -y install debtags

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

sudo aptitude install debtags

Summary

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