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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.

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

sudo apt-get install build-essential
JorelC
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Probably it is due command make is not present in system PATH, so remove and reinstall it.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall make
Tachyons
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Run command:

sudo apt-get update

to update package lists. After this,

sudo apt-get install make
d a i s y
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user659415
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First you should update your packages and then install "make".

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install make
Omega
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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: https://www.sitepoint.com/wsl2/

Edit: Install pip, too!

ItDepends
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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

Tabraiz Malik
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