rinse command not found

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

Introduction

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

rinse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rinse: command not found

Solutions to rinse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rinse is provided by rinse package.

rinse is:

This is a tool for bootstrapping a basic RPM-based distribution of GNU/Linux.

It is comparable in purpose to the standard Debian debootstrap utility, but works upon RPM-based distributions instead.

Rinse can setup 32 and 64-bit installations of:

  • CentOS
  • Scientific Linux CERN
  • Fedora
  • OpenSUSE

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

sudo apt-get -y install rinse

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

You can also use apt command to install rinse.

sudo apt -y install rinse

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

sudo aptitude install rinse

Summary

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