c++decl command not found

Introduction

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

c++decl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: c++decl: command not found

Solutions to c++decl: command not found

How To Fix c++decl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu c++decl is provided by cdecl package.

cdecl is:

Cdecl is a program which will turn English-like phrases such as “declare foo as array 5 of pointer to function returning int” into C declarations such as “int (*foo[5])()”. It can also translate the C into the pseudo- English. And it handles typecasts, too. Plus C++. And in this version it has command line editing and history with the GNU readline library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cdecl

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

You can also use apt command to install cdecl.

sudo apt -y install cdecl

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

sudo aptitude install cdecl

Summary

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