tup command not found

Introduction

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

tup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tup: command not found

Solutions to tup: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tup is provided by tup package.

tup is:

Tup is a file-based build system for Linux, OSX, and Windows. It takes as input a list of file changes and a directed acyclic graph (DAG). It then processes the DAG to execute the appropriate commands required to update dependent files. Updates are performed with very little overhead since tup implements powerful build algorithms to avoid doing unnecessary work. This means you can stay focused on your project rather than on your build system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tup

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

You can also use apt command to install tup.

sudo apt -y install tup

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

sudo aptitude install tup

Summary

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