ocaml-gettext command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ocaml-gettext command not found error message

Introduction

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

ocaml-gettext: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ocaml-gettext: command not found

In Ubuntu ocaml-gettext is provided by libgettext-ocaml-dev package.

libgettext-ocaml-dev is:

This library provides utilities and libraries to enable localization in OCaml programs. It is based on the same principle of GNU gettext.

The package provides two libraries to do effectively translation :

This package contains header, OCaml library and devel tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgettext-ocaml-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libgettext-ocaml-dev.

sudo apt -y install libgettext-ocaml-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libgettext-ocaml-dev

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