dh_auto_build_nant command not found

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

Introduction

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

dh_auto_build_nant: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dh_auto_build_nant: command not found

Solutions to dh_auto_build_nant: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dh_auto_build_nant is provided by cli-common-dev package.

cli-common-dev is:

This package must be installed if a CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) packaging environment is desired.

It includes debhelper scripts for managing automatic dependency tracking between native libraries, CLI libraries and CLI applications:

  • dh_clideps to generate cli:Depends information for debian/control
  • dh_makeclilibs to create clilibs files that are needed/used by dh_clideps
  • dh_installcligac to register assemblies to be late installed into a GAC
  • dh_cligacpolicy to create and install the policy files into a GAC
  • dh_clifixperms to fix permissions of files in CLI package build directories
  • dh_clistrip to strip CLI debug symbols from package build directories

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

sudo apt-get -y install cli-common-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install cli-common-dev.

sudo apt -y install cli-common-dev

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

sudo aptitude install cli-common-dev

Summary

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