clmake-short command not found

Introduction

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

clmake-short: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clmake-short: command not found

Solutions to clmake-short: command not found

How To Fix clmake-short: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu clmake-short is provided by colormake package.

colormake is:

This package contains colormake.pl which parses the output of make to colorize it to make it easier read. In addition, there are two wrapper scripts included, colormake and clmake, which can be invoked instead of make with colorized output on-the-fly.

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

sudo apt-get -y install colormake

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

You can also use apt command to install colormake.

sudo apt -y install colormake

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

sudo aptitude install colormake

Summary

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