kcov-system-daemon command not found

Introduction

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

kcov-system-daemon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kcov-system-daemon: command not found

Solutions to kcov-system-daemon: command not found

How To Fix kcov-system-daemon: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu kcov-system-daemon is provided by kcov package.

kcov is:

Kcov is a code coverage tester based on bcov by Thomas Neumann. It allows collecting code coverage information from executables without special command-line arguments, and continuosly produces output from long-running applications.

Kcov, like Bcov, uses DWARF debugging information to make this possible.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kcov

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

You can also use apt command to install kcov.

sudo apt -y install kcov

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

sudo aptitude install kcov

Summary

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