revu-build command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix revu-build command not found error message

Introduction

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

revu-build: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: revu-build: command not found

Solutions to revu-build: command not found

How To Fix revu-build: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu revu-build is provided by revu-tools package.

revu-tools is:

REVU-Tools is a set of scripts to help Debian packages reviewers in their task. It gathers fours scripts: revu-build, revu-orig, revu-report and a hook script for pbuilder, used by revu-build to perform build tests.

Among the information REVU-tools gives are:

Whether the package is a Debian-native
Whether the package contains a usable debian/watch file
Whether new versions of the program are available, using the debian/watch file with uscan
Whether the md5 sums of the upstream tarball and the orig.tar.gz are identical, and whether this is normal or not
Whether there is a diff between the extracted upstream tarball and orig.tar.gz
Whether the package fails to build from source in pbuilder
Whether lintian and linda are happy with this package
Whether running debuild -S -sa on this package generates files in the diff outside of debian/

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

sudo apt-get -y install revu-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install revu-tools.

sudo apt -y install revu-tools

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

sudo aptitude install revu-tools

Summary

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