hcltool command not found

Introduction

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

hcltool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hcltool: command not found

Solutions to hcltool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hcltool is provided by python3-pyhcl package.

python3-pyhcl is:

This Python module implements a parser for HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language: https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl). This implementation aims to be compatible with the original golang version of the parser.

The grammar and many of the tests/fixtures were copied/ported from the golang parser into pyhcl.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pyhcl

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-pyhcl.

sudo apt -y install python3-pyhcl

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pyhcl

Summary

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