jhbuild command not found

Introduction

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

jhbuild: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jhbuild: command not found

Solutions to jhbuild: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jhbuild is provided by jhbuild package.

jhbuild is:

Jhbuild is a program that can be used to pull a number of modules from Git, CVS, Subversion, Bazaar and other types of repositories or from tarballs and build them in the correct order. Unlike some build scripts, jhbuild lets you specify what modules you want built and it will then go and build those modules plus dependencies.

Although jhbuild was originally developed to build GNOME, it has since been extended to work with other projects as well. Extending it to handle new modules is usually trivial assuming the build infrastructure matches the other modules it handles.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jhbuild

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

You can also use apt command to install jhbuild.

sudo apt -y install jhbuild

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

sudo aptitude install jhbuild

Summary

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