cmake-genparsers command not found

Introduction

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

cmake-genparsers: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cmake-genparsers: command not found

Solutions to cmake-genparsers: command not found

How To Fix cmake-genparsers: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cmake-genparsers is provided by cmake-format package.

cmake-format is:

Contains several utilities for formatting and linting cmake configuration files.

• cmake-annotate can generate pretty HTML from your listfiles.
• cmake-format can format your listfiles nicely.
• cmake-lint can check your listfiles for problems

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

sudo apt-get -y install cmake-format

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

You can also use apt command to install cmake-format.

sudo apt -y install cmake-format

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

sudo aptitude install cmake-format

Summary

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