protoc-gen-rust command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix protoc-gen-rust command not found error message

Introduction

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

protoc-gen-rust: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: protoc-gen-rust: command not found

In Ubuntu protoc-gen-rust is provided by protobuf-codegen package.

protobuf-codegen is:

Includes a library and protoc-gen-rust binary. See protoc-rust and protobuf-codegen-pure crates.

This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “protobuf-codegen”:

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

sudo apt-get -y install protobuf-codegen

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

You can also use apt command to install protobuf-codegen.

sudo apt -y install protobuf-codegen

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

sudo aptitude install protobuf-codegen

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