gulp command not found

Introduction

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

gulp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gulp: command not found

Solutions to gulp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gulp is provided by gulp package.

gulp is:

gulp is a toolkit that helps you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow.

Platform-agnostic - Integrations are built into all major IDEs and people are using gulp with PHP, .NET, Node.js, Java, and other platforms. Strong Ecosystem - Use npm modules to do anything you want + over 2000 curated plugins for streaming file transformations Simple - By providing only a minimal API surface, gulp is easy to learn and simple to use

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 gulp

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

You can also use apt command to install gulp.

sudo apt -y install gulp

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

sudo aptitude install gulp

Summary

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