linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb command not found error message

Introduction

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

linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb: command not found

Solutions to linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb: command not found

How To Fix linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb is provided by linux-wlan-ng-firmware package.

linux-wlan-ng-firmware is:

linux-wlan-ng is a set of drivers and utilities that is intended to provide the full range of IEEE 802.11 MAC management capabilities for use in user-mode utilities and scripts. The package currently supports the Intersil 802.11b Prism2, Prism2.5, and Prism3 reference designs for PCMCIA, PCI, and USB. Additionally, the package includes support for the PLX9052 based PCI to PCMCIA adapter with a few different PCMCIA cards.

This package doesn’t contain the firmware files, but a script to download the upstream source tree and build a deb that contains them. Note that only some adapters really need a firmware file and that firmware files are not completely free (in the sense of freely redistributable), that’s why this package exists.

This package is only relevant for PCMCIA and PCI cards, if you have a USB card, install the prism2-usb-firmware-installer package instead.

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

sudo apt-get -y install linux-wlan-ng-firmware

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

You can also use apt command to install linux-wlan-ng-firmware.

sudo apt -y install linux-wlan-ng-firmware

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

sudo aptitude install linux-wlan-ng-firmware

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.