autopoint command not found

Introduction

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

autopoint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: autopoint: command not found

Solutions to autopoint: command not found

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

In Ubuntu autopoint is provided by autopoint package.

autopoint is:

The autopoint' program copies standard gettext infrastructure files into a source package. It extracts from a macro call of the form AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(VERSION)’, found in the package’s configure.in' or configure.ac’ file, the gettext version used by the package, and copies the infrastructure files belonging to this version into the package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install autopoint

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

You can also use apt command to install autopoint.

sudo apt -y install autopoint

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

sudo aptitude install autopoint

Summary

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