gron command not found

Introduction

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

gron: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gron: command not found

Solutions to gron: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gron is provided by gron package.

gron is:

gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute ‘path’ to it. gron can read JSON from a local file, over the network, or directly from STDIN.

gron eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs of JSON but have terrible documentation.

gron can work backwards too, enabling you to turn your filtered data back into JSON.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gron

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

You can also use apt command to install gron.

sudo apt -y install gron

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

sudo aptitude install gron

Summary

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