git-hg-helper command not found

Introduction

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

git-hg-helper: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-hg-helper: command not found

Solutions to git-hg-helper: command not found

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

In Ubuntu git-hg-helper is provided by git-remote-hg package.

git-remote-hg is:

This package provides the hg remote helper, which allows Git to read from and write to Mercurial repositories as though they were remote Git repositories.

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-remote-hg

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

You can also use apt command to install git-remote-hg.

sudo apt -y install git-remote-hg

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

sudo aptitude install git-remote-hg

Summary

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