duk command not found

Introduction

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

duk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: duk: command not found

Solutions to duk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu duk is provided by duktape package.

duktape is:

Duktape is an embeddable Javascript engine, with a focus on portability and compact footprint.

Duktape is easy to integrate into a C/C++ project: add duktape.c, duktape.h, and duk_config.h to your build, and use the Duktape API to call Ecmascript functions from C code and vice versa.

The main features are - Embeddable, portable, compact: can run on platforms with 256kB flash and 64kB system RAM - Ecmascript E5/E5.1 compliant, some features borrowed from Ecmascript E6 - Khronos/ES6 TypedArray and Node.js Buffer bindings - Built-in debugger - Built-in regular expression engine - Built-in Unicode support - Minimal platform dependencies - Combined reference counting and mark-and-sweep garbage collection with finalization - Custom features like coroutines, built-in logging framework, and built-in CommonJS-based module loading framework - Property virtualization using a subset of Ecmascript E6 Proxy object - Bytecode dump/load for caching compiled functions

This package contains a commandline duk interpreter

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

sudo apt-get -y install duktape

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

You can also use apt command to install duktape.

sudo apt -y install duktape

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

sudo aptitude install duktape

Summary

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