pkgkde-gensymbols command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pkgkde-gensymbols command not found error message

Introduction

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

pkgkde-gensymbols: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pkgkde-gensymbols: command not found

Solutions to pkgkde-gensymbols: command not found

How To Fix pkgkde-gensymbols: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pkgkde-gensymbols is provided by pkg-kde-tools package.

pkg-kde-tools is:

This package contains a variety of packaging tools and build scripts that may be very useful when packaging KDE applications. Even if you are a maintainer of a very small KDE application, this package should be worthwhile checking out.

Main highlights:

  • recommended build flags for building packages based on the KDE Platform;
  • cdbs class for building packages based on the KDE Platform (kde.mk);
  • debhelper build system (–buildsystem=kde) and dh addon (–with kde) for building packages based on the KDE Platform;
  • dh_sameversiondep for generating a dependency that is versioned the same way as a dependency (coming from the same source) of another reference package.
  • dh_movelibkdeinit for moving libkdeinit4_*.so libraries to private location;
  • dh_sodeps (and sodeps dh addon) for generating so:Depends substvar for -dev packages based to which local packages lib*.so symlinks point to;
  • dh_qmlcdeps (and qmlcdeps dh addon) for generating qmlc:Depends substvar for packages shipping QML cache files.
  • pkgkde-symbolshelper tool for efficient management of C and C++ symbol files;
  • pkgkde-debs2symbols tool for generating symbol files and symbol file patches from pre-built binaries in the deb packages;
  • pkgkde-getbuildlogs tool for downloading build logs for the specified package (from buildd.debian.org);
  • pkgkde-override-sc-dev-latest tool for overriding Breaks of the kde-sc-dev-latest package;
  • pkgkde-vcs tool for performing common tasks when packaging under VCS.

NOTE: since this package is cumulative, it does not depend on the packages it provides helpers for. I.e. you still need to explicitly build depend on debhelper or cdbs in your packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pkg-kde-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install pkg-kde-tools.

sudo apt -y install pkg-kde-tools

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

sudo aptitude install pkg-kde-tools

Summary

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