live-update-initramfs-uuid command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix live-update-initramfs-uuid command not found error message

Introduction

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

live-update-initramfs-uuid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: live-update-initramfs-uuid: command not found

In Ubuntu live-update-initramfs-uuid is provided by live-tools package.

live-tools is:

The Live Systems project maintains the components to build Debian based Live systems and the official Debian Live images themselves.

live-tools contains extra components for live systems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install live-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install live-tools.

sudo apt -y install live-tools

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

sudo aptitude install live-tools

In this tutorial we learn how to fix live-update-initramfs-uuid command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.