erubis command not found

Introduction

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

erubis: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: erubis: command not found

Solutions to erubis: command not found

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

In Ubuntu erubis is provided by ruby-erubis package.

ruby-erubis is:

Erubis is a very fast eRuby implementation that features:

• Multi-language support (Ruby/PHP/C/Java/Scheme/Perl/Javascript)
• Auto escaping support
• Auto trimming spaces around ‘<% %>’
• Embedded pattern changeable (default ‘<% %>’)
• Enable to handle Processing Instructions (PI) as embedded pattern
• Context object available and easy to combine eRuby template with YAML file
• Print statement available
• Easy to extend and customize in subclass
• Ruby on Rails support

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-erubis

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-erubis.

sudo apt -y install ruby-erubis

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-erubis

Summary

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