overlayroot-chroot command not found

Introduction

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

overlayroot-chroot: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: overlayroot-chroot: command not found

Solutions to overlayroot-chroot: command not found

How To Fix overlayroot-chroot: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu overlayroot-chroot is provided by overlayroot package.

overlayroot is:

This package adds functionality to an initramfs built by initramfs-tools. When installed and configured, the initramfs will mount an overlayfs filesystem on top of a read-only root volume.

The changes can be written to a in-memory temporary filesystem, a filesystem on an existing block device, or a dmcrypt encrypted block device.

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

sudo apt-get -y install overlayroot

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

You can also use apt command to install overlayroot.

sudo apt -y install overlayroot

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

sudo aptitude install overlayroot

Summary

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