cli-generate command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix cli-generate command not found error message

Introduction

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

cli-generate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cli-generate: command not found

In Ubuntu cli-generate is provided by libbg-dev package.

libbg-dev is:

This package contains a collection of libraries written by Bruce Guenter and put in use in various packages.

The library collection is mandatory to build most of software packages available at http://untroubled.org.

This package contains the development files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libbg-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libbg-dev.

sudo apt -y install libbg-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libbg-dev

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