mklibs command not found

Introduction

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

mklibs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mklibs: command not found

Solutions to mklibs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mklibs is provided by mklibs package.

mklibs is:

mklibs produces cut-down shared libraries that contain only the routines required by a particular set of executables. This is useful when building closed systems where disk space is at a premium, such as the Debian installer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mklibs

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

You can also use apt command to install mklibs.

sudo apt -y install mklibs

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

sudo aptitude install mklibs

Summary

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