packup command not found

Introduction

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

packup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: packup: command not found

Solutions to packup: command not found

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

In Ubuntu packup is provided by packup package.

packup is:

packup is a solver for the package upgradability problem specified in the CUDF format. It repeatedly invokes an optimization pseudo-Boolean solver in order to solve the problem. By default minisat+ is used for that purpose but a different solver can be used by specifying the pertaining command line option.

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

sudo apt-get -y install packup

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

You can also use apt command to install packup.

sudo apt -y install packup

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

sudo aptitude install packup

Summary

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