chicken-do command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix chicken-do command not found error message

Introduction

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

chicken-do: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: chicken-do: command not found

Solutions to chicken-do: command not found

How To Fix chicken-do: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu chicken-do is provided by chicken-bin package.

chicken-bin is:

CHICKEN is a Scheme compiler which compiles a subset of R5RS into C. It uses the ideas presented in Baker’s paper “Cheney on the MTA”, and has a small core and is easily extendable.

This package contains the compiler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install chicken-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install chicken-bin.

sudo apt -y install chicken-bin

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

sudo aptitude install chicken-bin

Summary

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