soong_build command not found

Introduction

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

soong_build: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: soong_build: command not found

Solutions to soong_build: command not found

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

In Ubuntu soong_build is provided by soong package.

soong is:

Soong is a build system for Android built on top of Blueprint, a meta-build system. Soong is the replacement for the old Android make-based build system. It replaces Android.mk files with Android.bp files, which are JSON-like simple declarative descriptions of modules to build.

This package contains command-line tools for Soong.

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

sudo apt-get -y install soong

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

You can also use apt command to install soong.

sudo apt -y install soong

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

sudo aptitude install soong

Summary

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