Make Command Not Found

I am having a problem that doesn't seem to be common based on searching various forums.

I cannot run the Make command.

Message:

The program 'make' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install make 

So do this:

sudo apt-get install make Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done make is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 

But then when I try to run Make I get the same message. What's up?

Edit: Ubuntu 12.04 64bit Desktop fresh install.

6 Answers

Run this command to install make and all the packages needed to build your code.

sudo apt-get install build-essential 

Probably it is due command make is not present in system PATH, so remove and reinstall it.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall make 

Run command:

sudo apt-get update 

to update package lists. After this,

sudo apt-get install make 

I was coming from a background of installing WSL2 just today and was surprised to find that packages like make weren't already there, as I was so used to them being.

Then I realized my Ubuntu is a bit of a "clean slate". So I decided to update it to get essential development packages as per 'standard' recommendation, I guess:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get autoremove 

Source:

Edit: Install pip, too!

Run

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Before running make, you might also need to generate a Makefile first.

Run

./configure

Then the make command

First you should update your packages and then install "make".

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install make