Make Command Not Found

Question

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.

Solution 1

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

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Solution 2

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

sudo apt-get install --reinstall make

Solution 3

Run command:

sudo apt-get update

to update package lists. After this,

sudo apt-get install make

Comments

[chovy]

also installs cc which was the next command missing.

[DaReal]

Question from 2012 and answer from 2016, so had to check, but indeed still solves it in 2022 on Ubuntu 18.04.