modulemaker command not found

Introduction

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

modulemaker: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: modulemaker: command not found

Solutions to modulemaker: command not found

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

In Ubuntu modulemaker is provided by libextutils-modulemaker-perl package.

libextutils-modulemaker-perl is:

ExtUtils::ModuleMaker is a replacement for the most typical use of the h2xs utility bundled with all Perl distributions: the creation of the directories and files required for a pure-Perl module to be installable with make and distributable on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libextutils-modulemaker-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libextutils-modulemaker-perl.

sudo apt -y install libextutils-modulemaker-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libextutils-modulemaker-perl

Summary

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