makedeltarpm command not found

Introduction

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

makedeltarpm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: makedeltarpm: command not found

Solutions to makedeltarpm: command not found

How To Fix makedeltarpm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu makedeltarpm is provided by deltarpm package.

deltarpm is:

A deltarpm contains the differences between an old and a new version of an RPM. This makes it possible to recreate the new RPM from the deltarpm and the old RPM.

On Debian and derived systems these tools may be useful for creating and maintaining repositories of RPM packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install deltarpm

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

You can also use apt command to install deltarpm.

sudo apt -y install deltarpm

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

sudo aptitude install deltarpm

Summary

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