hiera command not found

Introduction

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

hiera: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hiera: command not found

Solutions to hiera: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hiera is provided by hiera package.

hiera is:

ruby-hiera is a simple pluggable hierarchical database. It can be used to store various information and therefore is a good fit for the representation of infrastructure information. It can be used to query multiple data backends e.g. YAML or Puppet.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hiera

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

You can also use apt command to install hiera.

sudo apt -y install hiera

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

sudo aptitude install hiera

Summary

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