llvm-cov command not found

Introduction

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

llvm-cov: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: llvm-cov: command not found

Solutions to llvm-cov: command not found

How To Fix llvm-cov: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu llvm-cov is provided by llvm package.

llvm is:

The Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) is a collection of libraries and tools that make it easy to build compilers, optimizers, Just-In-Time code generators, and many other compiler-related programs.

This is a dependency package providing the default llvm package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install llvm

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

You can also use apt command to install llvm.

sudo apt -y install llvm

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

sudo aptitude install llvm

Summary

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