codecgen command not found

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

Introduction

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

codecgen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: codecgen: command not found

In Ubuntu codecgen is provided by golang-github-ugorji-go-codec package.

golang-github-ugorji-go-codec is:

Package codec provides a High Performance, Feature-Rich Idiomatic Go 1.4+ codec/encoding library for binc, msgpack, cbor, json

This package contains the tools (codecgen).

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

sudo apt-get -y install golang-github-ugorji-go-codec

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

You can also use apt command to install golang-github-ugorji-go-codec.

sudo apt -y install golang-github-ugorji-go-codec

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

sudo aptitude install golang-github-ugorji-go-codec

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