chef-solo: command not found

Have You tried accessing the binary with the full path?

Maybe Your $PATH variable doesn't contain the default paths? echo $PATH should give something like:

[root@server ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

If it's empty, You may set the PATH variable with this command

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin"

On Debian possible default full paths are:

/usr/bin/chef-solo - from package: chef

You may install the required package with command apt-get install {package}
Error in other languages:
chef-solo: bevel nie gevind nie
chef-solo: comandă negăsită
chef-solo: comando não encontrado
chef-solo: commande introuvable
chef-solo: command not found
chef-solo: käsku ei ole
chef-solo: không tìm thấy lệnh
chef-solo: komanda nerasta
chef-solo: Kommando nicht gefunden.
chef-solo: kommandot finns inte
chef-solo: komut yok
chef-solo: nie znaleziono polecenia
chef-solo: níor aimsíodh an t-ordú
chef-solo: no se encontró la orden
chef-solo: no s'ha trobat l'ordre
chef-solo: opdracht niet gevonden
chef-solo: parancs nem található
chef-solo: perintah tidak ditemukan
chef-solo: príkaz nenájdený
chef-solo: příkaz nenalezen
chef-solo: команда не найдена
chef-solo: командата не е открита
chef-solo: 命令找不到
chef-solo: コマンドが見つかりません