jsonlint command not found

Introduction

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

jsonlint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jsonlint: command not found

Solutions to jsonlint: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jsonlint is provided by python3-demjson package.

python3-demjson is:

demjson is a comprehensive Python language binding to the JSON language-independent data encoding standard, which is often used as a simpler substitute for XML in AJAX-based web applications.

This package contains the python3 library and the jsonlint-py3 script.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-demjson

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-demjson

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

sudo aptitude install python3-demjson

Summary

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