gnulib-tool command not found

Introduction

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

gnulib-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnulib-tool: command not found

Solutions to gnulib-tool: command not found

How To Fix gnulib-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnulib-tool is provided by gnulib package.

gnulib is:

The GNU portability library is a macro system and C declarations and definitions for commonly-used API elements and abstracted system behaviors. It can be used to improve portability and other functionality in your programs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnulib

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

You can also use apt command to install gnulib.

sudo apt -y install gnulib

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

sudo aptitude install gnulib

Summary

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