esgenerate command not found

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

Introduction

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

esgenerate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: esgenerate: command not found

In Ubuntu esgenerate is provided by node-escodegen package.

node-escodegen is:

This is an ECMAScript (also popularly known as JavaScript) code generator from Mozilla’s Parser API AST.

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-escodegen

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

You can also use apt command to install node-escodegen.

sudo apt -y install node-escodegen

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

sudo aptitude install node-escodegen

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