jison-lex command not found

Introduction

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

jison-lex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jison-lex: command not found

Solutions to jison-lex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jison-lex is provided by node-jison-lex package.

node-jison-lex is:

A lexical analyzer generator used by jison. It takes a lexical grammar definition (either in JSON or Bison’s lexical grammar format) and outputs a JavaScript lexer.

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-jison-lex

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

You can also use apt command to install node-jison-lex.

sudo apt -y install node-jison-lex

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

sudo aptitude install node-jison-lex

Summary

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