graph-includes command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix graph-includes command not found error message

Introduction

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

graph-includes: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: graph-includes: command not found

Solutions to graph-includes: command not found

How To Fix graph-includes: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu graph-includes is provided by deps-tools-cli package.

deps-tools-cli is:

Currently only contains the limited “graph-includes” tool.

Graph-includes creates a graph of dependencies between source-files and/or groups of source-files, with an emphasis on getting readable and usable graphs even for large projects.

Usability of the dependency graphs are currently improved by:

customizable grouping of several source files into a single node
transitive reduction of the graph

It currently supports graphing the C/C++ #include relationship, using graphviz by default.

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

sudo apt-get -y install deps-tools-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install deps-tools-cli.

sudo apt -y install deps-tools-cli

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

sudo aptitude install deps-tools-cli

Summary

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