crc32js command not found

Introduction

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

crc32js: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: crc32js: command not found

Solutions to crc32js: command not found

How To Fix crc32js: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu crc32js is provided by node-crc32 package.

node-crc32 is:

CRC means ‘Cyclic Redundancy Check’ and is a way to checksum data. It is a simple algorithm based on polynomials and is used in such projects as gzip.

This module only works with UTF-8 strings, and is meant to be able to work on node and 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-crc32

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

You can also use apt command to install node-crc32.

sudo apt -y install node-crc32

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

sudo aptitude install node-crc32

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix crc32js command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.