git-debdry-build command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix git-debdry-build command not found error message

Introduction

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

git-debdry-build: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-debdry-build: command not found

Solutions to git-debdry-build: command not found

How To Fix git-debdry-build: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-debdry-build is provided by debdry package.

debdry is:

debdry is for debian/ directories what debhelper7 is for debian/rules.

It applies the Don’t Repeat Yourself idea to packaging, attempting to reuse as much as possible of upstream’s metadata and standard packaging practices.

debdry runs an appropriate auto-debianisation tool for a given source directory, then applies manual overrides from a debian.in directory.

debdry supports the following types of packages (in brackets you will find extra packages that need to be installed for each type of package):

  • Perl [dh-make-perl]
  • Python [python-stdeb, python3-stdeb]
  • Ruby [gem2deb]
  • Haskell [cabal-debian]

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

sudo apt-get -y install debdry

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

You can also use apt command to install debdry.

sudo apt -y install debdry

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

sudo aptitude install debdry

Summary

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