shake command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix shake command not found error message

Introduction

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

shake: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shake: command not found

In Ubuntu shake is provided by shake package.

shake is:

The shake utility is a simple and transparent test engine for Lua.

Shake gives concise reports when the tests succeed, while it prints detailed traces when tests fail.

Regular Lua test files, if written using only standard assert and print calls, can be run with shake with no modifications.

This package contains the shake command line utility, the Lua modules that implement shake functionalities and the documentation for both.

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

sudo apt-get -y install shake

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

You can also use apt command to install shake.

sudo apt -y install shake

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

sudo aptitude install shake

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