abi-compliance-checker command not found

Introduction

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

abi-compliance-checker: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: abi-compliance-checker: command not found

Solutions to abi-compliance-checker: command not found

How To Fix abi-compliance-checker: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu abi-compliance-checker is provided by abi-compliance-checker package.

abi-compliance-checker is:

abi-compliance-checker can be used to help reduce the possibility of an application crashing when the shared libraries it links against have changed. Signatures and data type definitions from two separate versions of a library are compared by examining the shared objects (.so) files themselves, and by analysing the header files (.h) provided for the two versions of the library and their dependencies.

Shared library developers trying to strive for binary compatibility between releases may also use this tool to detect if an any accidental application binary interface (ABI) changes have been introduced.

The checker may also be used for assessing binary compatibility between different Linux distributions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install abi-compliance-checker

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

You can also use apt command to install abi-compliance-checker.

sudo apt -y install abi-compliance-checker

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

sudo aptitude install abi-compliance-checker

Summary

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