sd-helper command not found

Introduction

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

sd-helper: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sd-helper: command not found

Solutions to sd-helper: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sd-helper is provided by runc package.

runc is:

“runc” is a command line client for running applications packaged according to the Open Container Format (OCF) and is a compliant implementation of the Open Container Project specification.

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

sudo apt-get -y install runc

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

You can also use apt command to install runc.

sudo apt -y install runc

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

sudo aptitude install runc

Summary

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