qemu-pr-helper command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix qemu-pr-helper command not found error message

Introduction

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

qemu-pr-helper: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qemu-pr-helper: command not found

Solutions to qemu-pr-helper: command not found

How To Fix qemu-pr-helper: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu qemu-pr-helper is provided by qemu-system-common package.

qemu-system-common is:

QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4, SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.

This package provides common files needed for target-specific full system emulation (qemu-system-*) packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-common

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

You can also use apt command to install qemu-system-common.

sudo apt -y install qemu-system-common

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

sudo aptitude install qemu-system-common

Summary

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