ghc-events command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ghc-events command not found error message

Introduction

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

ghc-events: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ghc-events: command not found

In Ubuntu ghc-events is provided by libghc-ghc-events-dev package.

libghc-ghc-events-dev is:

This library provides functions to parse .eventlog files emitted by the GHC.12.1 and later runtimes.

This package provides a library for the Haskell programming language. See http://www.haskell.org/ for more information on Haskell.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libghc-ghc-events-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libghc-ghc-events-dev.

sudo apt -y install libghc-ghc-events-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libghc-ghc-events-dev

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