abi-tracker command not found

Introduction

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

abi-tracker: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: abi-tracker: command not found

Solutions to abi-tracker: command not found

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

In Ubuntu abi-tracker is provided by abi-tracker package.

abi-tracker is:

abi-tracker generates an ABI (Application Binary Interface) compatibility report for a C or C++ library. The report gets rendered to static HTML pages.

The tool is intended for developers of software libraries and Linux maintainers who are interested in ensuring backward binary compatibility, i.e. allow old applications to run with newer library versions.

abi-tracker requires an input profile for the library in JSON format, which holds various metadata to check ABI compatibility. It can be created manually or automatically generated by the abi-monitor tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install abi-tracker

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

You can also use apt command to install abi-tracker.

sudo apt -y install abi-tracker

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

sudo aptitude install abi-tracker

Summary

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