reuse command not found

Introduction

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

reuse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: reuse: command not found

Solutions to reuse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu reuse is provided by reuse package.

reuse is:

Managing copyright and licensing is difficult, especially when reusing software from different projects that are released under various different licenses. REUSE was started by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) to provide a set of recommendations to make licensing your Free Software projects easier. Not only do these recommendations make it easier for you to declare the licenses under which your works are released, but they also make it easier for a computer to understand how your project is licensed.

This package contains a tool for checking and helping with compliance with the REUSE recommendations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install reuse

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

You can also use apt command to install reuse.

sudo apt -y install reuse

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

sudo aptitude install reuse

Summary

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