ftjam command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ftjam command not found error message

Introduction

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

ftjam: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ftjam: command not found

Solutions to ftjam: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ftjam is provided by ftjam package.

ftjam is:

This is a version of Jam with additional features and bugfixes, which is maintained by the FreeType project.

Perforce’s Jam (formerly called Jam/MR, available in package “jam”) is a powerful and highly customizable utility to build programs and other things, that can run on Un*x, Nt, VMS, OS/2 and Macintosh MPW, using portable Jamfiles. It can build large projects spread across many directories in one pass, and can run jobs in parallel where make would not.

It takes some time to fully apprehend, especially when one’s already accustomed to make(1), but there’s no comparison in power when comparing these two tools.

Standard rules:

  • can automatically extract header dependencies for C/C++ (you can customize for you own language)
  • provide for automatic “clean”, “install”, “uninstall” rules, so that an automake-like tool is not needed

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

sudo apt-get -y install ftjam

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

You can also use apt command to install ftjam.

sudo apt -y install ftjam

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

sudo aptitude install ftjam

Summary

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