dhall command not found

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

Introduction

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

dhall: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dhall: command not found

Solutions to dhall: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dhall is provided by dhall package.

dhall is:

Dhall is an explicitly-typed configuration language that is not Turing complete. Despite being Turing-incomplete, Dhall is a real programming language with a type-checker and evaluator.

Use this library to parse, type-check, evaluate, and pretty-print the Dhall configuration language.

This package contains an executable which type-checks a Dhall file and reduces the file to a fully evaluated normal form.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dhall

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

You can also use apt command to install dhall.

sudo apt -y install dhall

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

sudo aptitude install dhall

Summary

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