yaml2json command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix yaml2json command not found error message

Introduction

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

yaml2json: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yaml2json: command not found

In Ubuntu yaml2json is provided by libghc-yaml-dev package.

libghc-yaml-dev is:

Provides support for parsing and emitting Yaml documents.

This package provides a library for the Haskell programming language. See http://www.haskell.org/ for more information on Haskell.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libghc-yaml-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libghc-yaml-dev.

sudo apt -y install libghc-yaml-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libghc-yaml-dev

In this tutorial we learn how to fix yaml2json command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.