multistrap command not found

Introduction

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

multistrap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: multistrap: command not found

Solutions to multistrap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu multistrap is provided by multistrap package.

multistrap is:

A debootstrap replacement with multiple repository support, using apt to handle all dependency issues and conflicts.

Multistrap includes support for native and foreign architecture bootstrap environments. Foreign bootstraps only need minimal configuration on the final device. Also supports cleaning up the generated bootstrap filesystem to remove downloaded packages and hooks to modify the files in the bootstrap filesystem after the packages have been unpacked but before being configured.

Unlike debootstrap, multistrap relies on working versions of dpkg and apt outside the final filesystem. If dpkg supports MultiArch, foreign architecture libraries can be installed, where available.

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

sudo apt-get -y install multistrap

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

You can also use apt command to install multistrap.

sudo apt -y install multistrap

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

sudo aptitude install multistrap

Summary

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