abilint command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix abilint command not found error message

Introduction

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

abilint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: abilint: command not found

In Ubuntu abilint is provided by abigail-tools package.

abigail-tools is:

This is an interface to the GNU Compiler Collection for the collection and analysis of compiler-generated binaries.

This package contains the tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install abigail-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install abigail-tools.

sudo apt -y install abigail-tools

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

sudo aptitude install abigail-tools

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