gapi3-codegen command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gapi3-codegen command not found error message

Introduction

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

gapi3-codegen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gapi3-codegen: command not found

Solutions to gapi3-codegen: command not found

How To Fix gapi3-codegen: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gapi3-codegen is provided by gtk-sharp3-gapi package.

gtk-sharp3-gapi is:

GTK# 3.0 is a CLI (.NET) language binding for the GTK+ 3.0 toolkit and related libraries.

This package includes the parser and code generator used by the GTK# project to parse and bind GObject libraries. Install if you want to bind GObject-based libraries, or need to compile a project that uses it to bind such a library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gtk-sharp3-gapi

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

You can also use apt command to install gtk-sharp3-gapi.

sudo apt -y install gtk-sharp3-gapi

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

sudo aptitude install gtk-sharp3-gapi

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gapi3-codegen command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.