dialyzer command not found

Introduction

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

dialyzer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dialyzer: command not found

Solutions to dialyzer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dialyzer is provided by erlang-dialyzer package.

erlang-dialyzer is:

Dialyzer is a static analysis tool that identifies software discrepancies such as type errors, unreachable code, unnecessary tests etc. in single Erlang modules or entire (sets of) applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install erlang-dialyzer

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

You can also use apt command to install erlang-dialyzer.

sudo apt -y install erlang-dialyzer

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

sudo aptitude install erlang-dialyzer

Summary

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