subunit-diff command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix subunit-diff command not found error message

Introduction

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

subunit-diff: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: subunit-diff: command not found

Solutions to subunit-diff: command not found

How To Fix subunit-diff: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu subunit-diff is provided by subunit package.

subunit is:

subunit is a protocol for test activity serialisation deserialisation. This permits executing tests remotely, or saving the result of test runs for later introspection.

The subunit package includes the subunit command line tools: subunit-diff, subunit-filter subunit-stats tap2subunit subunit2pyunit subunit-ls subunit-tags, subunit2gtk

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

sudo apt-get -y install subunit

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

You can also use apt command to install subunit.

sudo apt -y install subunit

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

sudo aptitude install subunit

Summary

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