ccomps command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ccomps command not found error message

Introduction

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

ccomps: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ccomps: command not found

Solutions to ccomps: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ccomps is provided by graphviz package.

graphviz is:

Graph drawing addresses the problem of visualizing structural information by constructing geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic generation of graph drawings has important applications in key technologies such as database design, software engineering, VLSI and network design and visual interfaces in other domains. Situations where these tools might be particularly useful include:

  • you would like to restructure a program and first need to understand the relationships between its types, procedures, and source files
  • you need to find the bottlenecks in an Internet backbone - not only individual links, but their relationships
  • you’re debugging a protocol or microarchitecture represented as a finite state machine and need to figure out how a certain error state arises
  • you would like to browse a database schema, knowledge base, or distributed program represented graphically
  • you would like to see an overview of a collection of linked documents
  • you would like to discover patterns and communities of interest in a database of telephone calls or e-mail messages

This package contains the command-line tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install graphviz

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

You can also use apt command to install graphviz.

sudo apt -y install graphviz

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

sudo aptitude install graphviz

Summary

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