gjs command not found

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

Introduction

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

gjs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gjs: command not found

Solutions to gjs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gjs is provided by gjs package.

gjs is:

Makes it possible for applications to use all of GNOME’s platform libraries using the JavaScript language. It’s mainly based on the Mozilla JavaScript engine and the GObject introspection framework.

This package contains the interactive console application.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gjs

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

You can also use apt command to install gjs.

sudo apt -y install gjs

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

sudo aptitude install gjs

Summary

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