abi-monitor command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix abi-monitor command not found error message

Introduction

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

abi-monitor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: abi-monitor: command not found

In Ubuntu abi-monitor is provided by abi-monitor package.

abi-monitor is:

abi-monitor checks for new versions of a software library, try to build them and create a profile for the abi-tracker tool.

This tool is intended to be used together with the ABI Tracker tool to visualize API/ABI changes timeline of a C/C++ library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install abi-monitor

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

You can also use apt command to install abi-monitor.

sudo apt -y install abi-monitor

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

sudo aptitude install abi-monitor

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