perl_count command not found

Introduction

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

perl_count: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: perl_count: command not found

Solutions to perl_count: command not found

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

In Ubuntu perl_count is provided by sloccount package.

sloccount is:

SLOCCount (pronounced “sloc-count”) is a suite of programs for counting physical source lines of code (SLOC) in potentially large software systems (thus, SLOCCount is a “software metrics tool” or “software measurement tool”). SLOCCount can count physical SLOC for a wide number of languages; listed alphabetically, they are: Ada, Assembly, awk, Bourne shell, C, C++, C shell, COBOL, C#, Erlang, Expect, Fortran, Java, lex/flex, LISP (including Scheme), Makefile, Modula3, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, sed, SQL, Tcl, VHDL, XML, Yacc/Bison.

SLOCCount can automatically determine if a file is a source code file or not, and if so, which language it’s written in. As a result, you can analyze large systems completely automatically. SLOCCount also includes some report-generating tools to collect the data generated and present it in several different formats.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sloccount

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

You can also use apt command to install sloccount.

sudo apt -y install sloccount

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

sudo aptitude install sloccount

Summary

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