camlidl command not found

Introduction

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

camlidl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: camlidl: command not found

Solutions to camlidl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu camlidl is provided by camlidl package.

camlidl is:

CamlIDL generates stub code for interfacing Caml with C from an IDL description of the C functions. Thus, CamlIDL automates the most tedious task in interfacing C libraries with Caml programs.

It can also be used to interface Caml programs with other languages, as long as those languages have a well-defined C interface.

This package contains the CamlIDL executable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install camlidl

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

You can also use apt command to install camlidl.

sudo apt -y install camlidl

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

sudo aptitude install camlidl

Summary

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