y2racc command not found

Introduction

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

y2racc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: y2racc: command not found

Solutions to y2racc: command not found

How To Fix y2racc: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu y2racc is provided by racc package.

racc is:

Racc is LALR(Look-Ahead LR) parser generator for Ruby, written in Ruby. It allows programmers to easily write syntactic parsers from simple rules, like yacc and bison.

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

sudo apt-get -y install racc

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

You can also use apt command to install racc.

sudo apt -y install racc

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

sudo aptitude install racc

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix y2racc command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.