run-clang-tidy command not found

Introduction

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

run-clang-tidy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: run-clang-tidy: command not found

Solutions to run-clang-tidy: command not found

How To Fix run-clang-tidy: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu run-clang-tidy is provided by clang-tidy package.

clang-tidy is:

Provide an extensible framework for diagnosing and fixing typical programming errors, like style violations, interface misuse, or bugs that can be deduced via static analysis. clang-tidy is modular and provides a convenient interface for writing new checks.

clang-tidy replaces clang-modernize

This is a dependency package providing the clang tidy tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clang-tidy

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

You can also use apt command to install clang-tidy.

sudo apt -y install clang-tidy

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

sudo aptitude install clang-tidy

Summary

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