sip-build command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sip-build command not found error message

Introduction

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

sip-build: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sip-build: command not found

In Ubuntu sip-build is provided by sip-tools package.

sip-tools is:

SIP is a collection of tools that makes it very easy to create Python bindings for C and C++ libraries.

This package contains the following command line tools:

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

sudo apt-get -y install sip-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install sip-tools.

sudo apt -y install sip-tools

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

sudo aptitude install sip-tools

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