makeppinfo command not found

Introduction

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

makeppinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: makeppinfo: command not found

Solutions to makeppinfo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu makeppinfo is provided by makepp package.

makepp is:

Makepp, a build program which has a number of features that allow for reliable builds and simpler build files, is a drop-in replacement for GNU make. It supports almost all of the syntax that GNU make supports, and can be used with makefiles produced by utilities such as automake. It is called makepp (or make++) because it was designed with special support for C++, which has since been extended to other languages like Swig or embedded SQL.

Some features that makepp adds to make are: greatly improved handling of builds that involve multiple makefiles (recursive make is no longer necessary); automatic scanning for include files; rebuilds triggered if build command changes; checksum-based signature methods for reliable builds, smart enough to ignore whitespace or comment changes; extensibility through perl (within your makefile); repositories (automatically importing files from another tree); build caches (not recompiling identically what a user of the same cache already did).

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

sudo apt-get -y install makepp

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

You can also use apt command to install makepp.

sudo apt -y install makepp

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

sudo aptitude install makepp

Summary

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