reportbug command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix reportbug command not found error message

Introduction

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

reportbug: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: reportbug: command not found

Solutions to reportbug: command not found

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

In Ubuntu reportbug is provided by reportbug package.

reportbug is:

reportbug is a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian and derived distributions relatively painless. Its features include:

  • Integration with many mail user agents.
  • Access to outstanding bug reports to make it easier to identify whether problems have already been reported.
  • Automatic checking for newer versions of packages.
  • Optional automatic verification of integrity of packages via debsums.
  • Support for following-up on outstanding reports.
  • Optional PGP/GnuPG integration.

Bug reporting in Debian relies on email; reportbug can use a local mail transport agent (like exim or sendmail), submit directly through an external mail server, or pass messages to an installed mail user agent (e.g., mutt) for submission.

This package also includes the “querybts” script for browsing the Debian bug tracking system.

REPORTBUG IS MEANT FOR UBUNTU DEVELOPERS TO FORWARD BUGS TO DEBIAN. IF YOU WANT TO REPORT A BUG IN UBUNTU, PLEASE USE “ubuntu-bug” INSTEAD (from the “apport” package).

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

sudo apt-get -y install reportbug

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

You can also use apt command to install reportbug.

sudo apt -y install reportbug

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

sudo aptitude install reportbug

Summary

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