gherkin-generate-ast command not found

Introduction

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

gherkin-generate-ast: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gherkin-generate-ast: command not found

Solutions to gherkin-generate-ast: command not found

How To Fix gherkin-generate-ast: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gherkin-generate-ast is provided by ruby-gherkin package.

ruby-gherkin is:

Gherkin is a language for writing software acceptance tests in an executable scripting language that looks like structured natural language. It was created in the context of the cucumber project.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-gherkin

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-gherkin.

sudo apt -y install ruby-gherkin

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-gherkin

Summary

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