preamble command not found

Introduction

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

preamble: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: preamble: command not found

Solutions to preamble: command not found

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

In Ubuntu preamble is provided by node-package-preamble package.

node-package-preamble is:

Generates a minimalist preamble from a package.json. For example, // https://example.com/hello-world Version 0.0.1. Copyright 2016 Alice Baker. is generated by this tool.

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-package-preamble

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

You can also use apt command to install node-package-preamble.

sudo apt -y install node-package-preamble

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

sudo aptitude install node-package-preamble

Summary

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