checkstyle command not found

Introduction

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

checkstyle: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: checkstyle: command not found

Solutions to checkstyle: command not found

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

In Ubuntu checkstyle is provided by checkstyle package.

checkstyle is:

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking Java code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task. This makes it ideal for projects that want to enforce a coding standard.

Checkstyle is highly configurable and can be made to support almost any coding standard. An example configuration file is supplied supporting the Sun Code Conventions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install checkstyle

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

You can also use apt command to install checkstyle.

sudo apt -y install checkstyle

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

sudo aptitude install checkstyle

Summary

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