gen-ruby-trans-pkgs command not found

Introduction

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

gen-ruby-trans-pkgs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gen-ruby-trans-pkgs: command not found

Solutions to gen-ruby-trans-pkgs: command not found

How To Fix gen-ruby-trans-pkgs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gen-ruby-trans-pkgs is provided by gem2deb package.

gem2deb is:

gem2deb is a set of tools to create Debian package from ruby software distributed with Rubygems. gem2tgz converts the .gem file to a tar archive, then dh-make-ruby creates a Debian source package from that archive. That Debian package uses the included Debhelper helper, dh_ruby, to generate a proper Debian package. Both pure-ruby and native packages are supported.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gem2deb

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

You can also use apt command to install gem2deb.

sudo apt -y install gem2deb

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

sudo aptitude install gem2deb

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gen-ruby-trans-pkgs command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.