phpize.default command not found

Introduction

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

phpize.default: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: phpize.default: command not found

Solutions to phpize.default: command not found

How To Fix phpize.default: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu phpize.default is provided by php-dev package.

php-dev is:

Headers and other PHP needed for compiling additional modules.

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.

This package is a dependency package, which depends on latest stable PHP version (currently 8.1).

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

sudo apt-get -y install php-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install php-dev.

sudo apt -y install php-dev

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

sudo aptitude install php-dev

Summary

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