mmdebstrap command not found

Introduction

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

mmdebstrap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mmdebstrap: command not found

Solutions to mmdebstrap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mmdebstrap is provided by mmdebstrap package.

mmdebstrap is:

Downloads, unpacks and installs Debian packages to either directly create a directory which can be chrooted into, or a tarball of it. In contrast to debootstrap it uses apt, supports more than one mirror, automatically uses security and updates mirrors for Debian stable chroots, is 3-6 times faster, produces smaller output by removing unnecessary cruft, is bit-by-bit reproducible if $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set, allows unprivileged operation using Linux user namespaces, fakechroot or proot and can setup foreign architecture chroots using qemu-user.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mmdebstrap

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

You can also use apt command to install mmdebstrap.

sudo apt -y install mmdebstrap

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

sudo aptitude install mmdebstrap

Summary

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