vbutil_key command not found

Introduction

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

vbutil_key: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vbutil_key: command not found

Solutions to vbutil_key: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vbutil_key is provided by vboot-utils package.

vboot-utils is:

This package contains a set of tools to deal with Chromebook internals, and the verified version of u-boot. Namely: bmpblk_font bmpblk_utility chromeos-tpm-recovery crossystem dev_debug_vboot dev_make_keypair dumpRSAPublicKey eficompress efidecompress enable_dev_usb_boot load_kernel_test pad_digest_utility signature_digest_utility tpm-nvsize tpm_init_temp_fix tpmc vbutil_what_key verify_data.

The programs previously included in this package: dump_fmap dump_kernel_config futility gbb_utility vbutil_firmware vbutil_key vbutil_keyblock, are now grouped in the futility program in the package vboot-kernel-utils.

Most users don’t need this package, and should look for the cgpt and vboot-kernel-utils packages instead.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vboot-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install vboot-utils.

sudo apt -y install vboot-utils

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

sudo aptitude install vboot-utils

Summary

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