gtkdoc-depscan command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gtkdoc-depscan command not found error message

Introduction

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

gtkdoc-depscan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gtkdoc-depscan: command not found

In Ubuntu gtkdoc-depscan is provided by gtk-doc-tools package.

gtk-doc-tools is:

These tools extract documentation embedded in GNOME source code, and produce pretty output via DocBook SGML.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gtk-doc-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install gtk-doc-tools.

sudo apt -y install gtk-doc-tools

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

sudo aptitude install gtk-doc-tools

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