gitlab-api-v4 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gitlab-api-v4 command not found error message

Introduction

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

gitlab-api-v4: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gitlab-api-v4: command not found

Solutions to gitlab-api-v4: command not found

How To Fix gitlab-api-v4: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gitlab-api-v4 is provided by libgitlab-api-v4-perl package.

libgitlab-api-v4-perl is:

GitLab::API::v4 provides a one-to-one interface with the GitLab API v4. Detailed information in GitLab’s API can be found at http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/api/README.html.

This package also includes the gitlab-api-v4 command-line interface (CLI).

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgitlab-api-v4-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libgitlab-api-v4-perl.

sudo apt -y install libgitlab-api-v4-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libgitlab-api-v4-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gitlab-api-v4 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.