gn command not found

Introduction

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

gn: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gn: command not found

Solutions to gn: command not found

How To Fix gn: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gn is provided by generate-ninja package.

generate-ninja is:

Generate-Ninja, or GN, is a meta-build system that generates Ninja build files so that you can build your project with Ninja. GN was, originally, part of the Chromium source tree, and has since been extracted into its own standalone repo.

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

sudo apt-get -y install generate-ninja

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

You can also use apt command to install generate-ninja.

sudo apt -y install generate-ninja

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

sudo aptitude install generate-ninja

Summary

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