dpkg-repack command not found

Introduction

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

dpkg-repack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dpkg-repack: command not found

Solutions to dpkg-repack: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dpkg-repack is provided by dpkg-repack package.

dpkg-repack is:

dpkg-repack creates a .deb file out of a package that has already been installed. If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked (i.e. files in /etc were modified), the new package will inherit the changes.

This utility can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to another, or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer available elsewhere, or to store the current state of a package before you upgrade it.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dpkg-repack

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

You can also use apt command to install dpkg-repack.

sudo apt -y install dpkg-repack

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

sudo aptitude install dpkg-repack

Summary

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