g-ir-doc-tool command not found

Introduction

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

g-ir-doc-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: g-ir-doc-tool: command not found

Solutions to g-ir-doc-tool: command not found

How To Fix g-ir-doc-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu g-ir-doc-tool is provided by gobject-introspection package.

gobject-introspection is:

GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection data can be used in several different use cases, for example automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation generation.

GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the introspection data.

This package contains tools for extracting introspection data from libraries and transforming it to different formats.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gobject-introspection

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

You can also use apt command to install gobject-introspection.

sudo apt -y install gobject-introspection

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

sudo aptitude install gobject-introspection

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix g-ir-doc-tool command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.