jison command not found

Introduction

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

jison: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jison: command not found

Solutions to jison: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jison is provided by jison package.

jison is:

Jison generates bottom-up parsers in JavaScript. Its API is similar to Bison’s, hence the name. It supports many of Bison’s major features, plus some of its own.

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 jison

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

You can also use apt command to install jison.

sudo apt -y install jison

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

sudo aptitude install jison

Summary

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