browser-unpack command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix browser-unpack command not found error message

Introduction

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

browser-unpack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: browser-unpack: command not found

In Ubuntu browser-unpack is provided by node-browser-unpack package.

node-browser-unpack is:

This package parses a bundle generated by browser-pack. Browser-pack packs Nodej.js source files from a json stream into a browser bundle.

This is dependency of browserify, a Node.js tool that allows one to run Node.js code in browser context.

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-browser-unpack

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

You can also use apt command to install node-browser-unpack.

sudo apt -y install node-browser-unpack

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

sudo aptitude install node-browser-unpack

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