jsonpointer command not found

Introduction

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

jsonpointer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jsonpointer: command not found

Solutions to jsonpointer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jsonpointer is provided by python3-json-pointer package.

python3-json-pointer is:

Python-json-pointer is a small library to resolve JSON pointers according to the IETF draft specification. JSON Pointer defines a string syntax for identifying a specific value within a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document.

This package provides the module for Python 3.x.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-json-pointer

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-json-pointer.

sudo apt -y install python3-json-pointer

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

sudo aptitude install python3-json-pointer

Summary

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