developers-reference command not found

Introduction

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

developers-reference: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: developers-reference: command not found

Solutions to developers-reference: command not found

How To Fix developers-reference: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu developers-reference is provided by developers-reference package.

developers-reference is:

This package contains the Debian Developer’s Reference, a set of guidelines and best practices which has been established by and for the community of Debian developers and maintainers. If you are not maintaining Debian packages, you probably do not need this package.

Table of Contents:

* 1. Scope of This Document
* 2. Applying to Become a Member
* 3. Debian Developer's Duties
* 4. Resources for Debian Members
* 5. Managing Packages
* 6. Best Packaging Practices
* 7. Beyond Packaging
* 8. Internationalization and Translations
* 1. Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools

This package contains the English version of the Developer’s Reference. The French, German, Italian, Russian and Japanese translations are available in developers-reference-fr, developers-reference-de, developers-reference-it, developers-reference-ru and developers-reference-ja.

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

sudo apt-get -y install developers-reference

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

You can also use apt command to install developers-reference.

sudo apt -y install developers-reference

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

sudo aptitude install developers-reference

Summary

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