inotify-hookable command not found

Introduction

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

inotify-hookable: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: inotify-hookable: command not found

Solutions to inotify-hookable: command not found

How To Fix inotify-hookable: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu inotify-hookable is provided by inotify-hookable package.

inotify-hookable is:

inotify-hookable is a program that monitor files with Linux inotify. This program accepts options to specify the files to be monitored and the command to run when a file has changed (based in kernel inotify)

inotify-hookable main advantage over inotifywait are:

• command to run after watch can be specified with an option
• emacs and vi backup files are ignored by default

Example:

inotify-hookable -f foo.c -c ‘gcc -o foo foo.c’

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

sudo apt-get -y install inotify-hookable

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

You can also use apt command to install inotify-hookable.

sudo apt -y install inotify-hookable

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

sudo aptitude install inotify-hookable

Summary

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