vnl-gen-header command not found

Introduction

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

vnl-gen-header: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vnl-gen-header: command not found

Solutions to vnl-gen-header: command not found

How To Fix vnl-gen-header: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu vnl-gen-header is provided by libvnlog-dev package.

libvnlog-dev is:

Vnlog (pronounced “vanillog”) is a trivially-simple log format consisting of an ASCII table with comments and labelled fields. This package provides a C library that simplifies generating such logs. Dev files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvnlog-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libvnlog-dev.

sudo apt -y install libvnlog-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libvnlog-dev

Summary

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