kcov command not found

Introduction

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

kcov: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kcov: command not found

Solutions to kcov: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kcov is provided by kcov package.

kcov is:

Kcov is a code coverage tester based on bcov by Thomas Neumann. It allows collecting code coverage information from executables without special command-line arguments, and continuosly produces output from long-running applications.

Kcov, like Bcov, uses DWARF debugging information to make this possible.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kcov

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

You can also use apt command to install kcov.

sudo apt -y install kcov

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

sudo aptitude install kcov

Summary

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