gperf command not found

Introduction

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

gperf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gperf: command not found

Solutions to gperf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gperf is provided by gperf package.

gperf is:

gperf is a program that generates perfect hash functions for sets of key words.

A perfect hash function is simply: A hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly 1 probe into the data structure.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gperf

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

You can also use apt command to install gperf.

sudo apt -y install gperf

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

sudo aptitude install gperf

Summary

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