gengetopt command not found

Introduction

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

gengetopt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gengetopt: command not found

Solutions to gengetopt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gengetopt is provided by gengetopt package.

gengetopt is:

gengetopt reads an interface description file, and writes a file containing a command-line parser function. gengetopt supports: long and short options, 11 types of parameters (including flag, int, double, string, and function call), and a usage message.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gengetopt

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

You can also use apt command to install gengetopt.

sudo apt -y install gengetopt

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

sudo aptitude install gengetopt

Summary

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