dh_vignette command not found

Introduction

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

dh_vignette: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dh_vignette: command not found

Solutions to dh_vignette: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dh_vignette is provided by dh-r package.

dh-r is:

Provides the R package buildsystem for debhelper.

Additional tools:

convert-to-dh-r: convert the dependencies of an existing R package from using CDBS to use dh-r dh-make-R: generate packaging skeletons for R packages dh-update-R: update (versioned) dependencies of R packages, Vcs-fields and Maintainer field

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

sudo apt-get -y install dh-r

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

You can also use apt command to install dh-r.

sudo apt -y install dh-r

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

sudo aptitude install dh-r

Summary

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