ecpg command not found

Introduction

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

ecpg: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ecpg: command not found

Solutions to ecpg: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ecpg is provided by libecpg-dev package.

libecpg-dev is:

This package contains the necessary files to build ECPG (Embedded PostgreSQL for C) programs. It includes the development libraries and the preprocessor program ecpg.

PostgreSQL is an object-relational SQL database management system.

Install this package if you want to write C programs with SQL statements embedded in them (rather than run by an external process).

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

sudo apt-get -y install libecpg-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libecpg-dev.

sudo apt -y install libecpg-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libecpg-dev

Summary

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