pdebuild command not found

Introduction

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

pdebuild: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pdebuild: command not found

Solutions to pdebuild: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pdebuild is provided by pbuilder package.

pbuilder is:

pbuilder constructs a chroot system, and builds a package inside the chroot. It is an ideal system to use to check that a package has correct build-dependencies. It uses apt extensively, and a local mirror, or a fast connection to a Debian mirror is ideal, but not necessary.

“pbuilder create” uses debootstrap to create a chroot image.

“pbuilder update” updates the image to the current state of testing/unstable/whatever

“pbuilder build” takes a *.dsc file and builds a binary in the chroot image.

pdebuild is a wrapper for Debian Developers, to allow running pbuilder just like “debuild”, as a normal user.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pbuilder

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

You can also use apt command to install pbuilder.

sudo apt -y install pbuilder

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

sudo aptitude install pbuilder

Summary

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