tsc command not found

Introduction

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

tsc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tsc: command not found

Solutions to tsc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tsc is provided by node-typescript package.

node-typescript is:

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript. It adds optional types, classes, and modules to JavaScript, supports tools for large-scale JavaScript applications for any browser, for any host, on any OS and compiles to readable, standards-based JavaScript.

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-typescript

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

You can also use apt command to install node-typescript.

sudo apt -y install node-typescript

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

sudo aptitude install node-typescript

Summary

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