mkoctfile command not found

Introduction

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

mkoctfile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkoctfile: command not found

Solutions to mkoctfile: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mkoctfile is provided by octave-dev package.

octave-dev is:

Octave is a (mostly MATLAB® compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

This package provides the header files and the mkoctfile script used for extending Octave via compiled code.

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

sudo apt-get -y install octave-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install octave-dev.

sudo apt -y install octave-dev

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

sudo aptitude install octave-dev

Summary

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