xfce-build command not found

Introduction

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

xfce-build: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xfce-build: command not found

Solutions to xfce-build: command not found

How To Fix xfce-build: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xfce-build is provided by xfce4-dev-tools package.

xfce4-dev-tools is:

xfce4-dev-tools provide an easy way to handle the setup and maintenance of a projects build framework. It’s required to build Xfce applications from git.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xfce4-dev-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install xfce4-dev-tools.

sudo apt -y install xfce4-dev-tools

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

sudo aptitude install xfce4-dev-tools

Summary

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