pseudo command not found

Introduction

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

pseudo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pseudo: command not found

Solutions to pseudo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pseudo is provided by pseudo package.

pseudo is:

The pseudo utility offers a way to run commands in a virtualized “root” environment, allowing ordinary users to run commands which give the illusion of creating device nodes, changing file ownership, and otherwise doing things necessary for creating distribution packages or filesystems.

Pseudo has a lot of similarities to fakeroot but is a new implementation that improves on the problems seen using fakeroot. Pseudo is now extensively used by Poky as a replacement to fakeroot but can also be used standalone in many other use cases.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pseudo

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

You can also use apt command to install pseudo.

sudo apt -y install pseudo

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

sudo aptitude install pseudo

Summary

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