ghp-import command not found

Introduction

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

ghp-import: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ghp-import: command not found

Solutions to ghp-import: command not found

How To Fix ghp-import: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ghp-import is provided by ghp-import package.

ghp-import is:

ghp-import is a Python script meant to make using GitHub’s gh-pages branches for hosting documentation simple.

Inside your repository just run ghp-import $DOCS_DIR where $DOCS_DIR is the path to the built documentation. This will write a commit to your gh-pages branch with the current documents in it.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ghp-import

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

You can also use apt command to install ghp-import.

sudo apt -y install ghp-import

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

sudo aptitude install ghp-import

Summary

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