dpkg-hold command not found

Introduction

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

dpkg-hold: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dpkg-hold: command not found

Solutions to dpkg-hold: command not found

How To Fix dpkg-hold: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dpkg-hold is provided by dlocate package.

dlocate is:

Uses GNU grep and text dumps of dpkg’s data to greatly speed up finding out which package a file belongs to (i.e. a very fast dpkg -S). Many other uses, including options to view all files in a package, calculate disk space used, view and check md5sums, list man pages, etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dlocate

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

You can also use apt command to install dlocate.

sudo apt -y install dlocate

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

sudo aptitude install dlocate

Summary

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