check-manifest command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix check-manifest command not found error message

Introduction

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

check-manifest: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: check-manifest: command not found

Solutions to check-manifest: command not found

How To Fix check-manifest: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu check-manifest is provided by check-manifest package.

check-manifest is:

The check-manifest tool performs a check on a MANIFEST.in file from a Python project and verifies its completeness. It can also create a MANIFEST.in file from scratch or append suggestions to it, and the user can also ignore certain patterns if needed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install check-manifest

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

You can also use apt command to install check-manifest.

sudo apt -y install check-manifest

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

sudo aptitude install check-manifest

Summary

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