browser-pack command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix browser-pack command not found error message

Introduction

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

browser-pack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: browser-pack: command not found

Solutions to browser-pack: command not found

How To Fix browser-pack: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu browser-pack is provided by node-browser-pack package.

node-browser-pack is:

This module takes a JSON files as input describing a set of javascript files and outputs a javascript function descripting source code and dependencies.

This modules is part of Browserify is a JavaScript tool that allows developers to write Node.js-style modules that compile for use in the browser.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-browser-pack

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

You can also use apt command to install node-browser-pack.

sudo apt -y install node-browser-pack

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

sudo aptitude install node-browser-pack

Summary

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