dul-receive-pack command not found

Introduction

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

dul-receive-pack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dul-receive-pack: command not found

Solutions to dul-receive-pack: command not found

How To Fix dul-receive-pack: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dul-receive-pack is provided by python3-dulwich package.

python3-dulwich is:

Dulwich is a Python implementation of the file formats and protocols used by the Git version control system. It can currently read from and write to existing Git repositories and implements the protocol for pushing and receiving packs from remote servers.

All functionality is available in pure Python, but for improved performance replacements of some modules written in C are also available. This package includes the high performance versions.

This package contains the module built for Python version 3.x.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-dulwich

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-dulwich.

sudo apt -y install python3-dulwich

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

sudo aptitude install python3-dulwich

Summary

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