j2 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix j2 command not found error message

Introduction

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

j2: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: j2: command not found

In Ubuntu j2 is provided by j2cli package.

j2cli is:

the Jinja2 library.

Features:

- Jinja2 templating
- INI, YAML, JSON data sources supported
- Allows the use of environment variables in templates! Hello Docker :)

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

sudo apt-get -y install j2cli

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

You can also use apt command to install j2cli.

sudo apt -y install j2cli

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

sudo aptitude install j2cli

In this tutorial we learn how to fix j2 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.