hocon command not found

Introduction

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

hocon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hocon: command not found

Solutions to hocon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hocon is provided by ruby-hocon package.

ruby-hocon is:

ruby-hocon is a port of the Typesafe Config Java library to Ruby. The library provides Ruby support for the HOCON configuration file format. It supports parsing and modification of existing HOCON/JSON files as well as rendering parsed config objects back to a Ruby String.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-hocon

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-hocon.

sudo apt -y install ruby-hocon

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-hocon

Summary

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