jgit command not found

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

Introduction

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

jgit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jgit: command not found

In Ubuntu jgit is provided by jgit-cli package.

jgit-cli is:

JGit is a lightweight, pure Java library implementing the Git version control system.

This package provides command line interface for user interaction with jgit.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jgit-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install jgit-cli.

sudo apt -y install jgit-cli

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

sudo aptitude install jgit-cli

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