erlang-depends command not found

Introduction

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

erlang-depends: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: erlang-depends: command not found

Solutions to erlang-depends: command not found

How To Fix erlang-depends: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu erlang-depends is provided by erlang-dev package.

erlang-dev is:

The files for application development in Erlang. They include headers for all applications included into Erlang/OTP distribution and C interface libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install erlang-dev

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

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

sudo apt -y install erlang-dev

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

sudo aptitude install erlang-dev

Summary

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