pristine-gz: 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/pristine-gz - from package: pristine-tar

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