remake command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix remake command not found error message

Introduction

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

remake: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: remake: command not found

Solutions to remake: command not found

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

In Ubuntu remake is provided by remake package.

remake is:

Modernized version of GNU make utility that adds improved error reporting, the ability to trace execution in a comprehensible way, and a debugger. Some of the features of the debugger are:

see the target call stack
set breakpoints on targets
show and set variables
execute arbitrary “make” code
issue shell commands while stopped in the middle of execution
inspect target descriptions
write a file with the commands of the target expanded

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

sudo apt-get -y install remake

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

You can also use apt command to install remake.

sudo apt -y install remake

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

sudo aptitude install remake

Summary

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