Mix error ubuntu 16.04

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Hi,

I have followed the installation instructions for Ubuntu on https://elixir-lang.org/install.html#installing-erlang. But when I run iex -S mix, I get the following:

make: cmake: Command not found
c_lib/elixir.mk:6: recipe for target ‘priv/testunit’ failed
make: *** [priv/testunit] Error 127
** (Mix) Could not compile with “make” (exit status: 2).

Any ideas what might be wrong?

Thanks,
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Do you have cmake on your system?

sudo apt install cmake

https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/cmake

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If You want development tools, You should install build-essential.

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
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While build-essential includes make (which already seemed to be working) strangely enough it doesn’t seem to include cmake - unless I’m missing something.

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I did have that, but did not help, as cmake was missing.