jsonpath command not found

Introduction

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

jsonpath: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jsonpath: command not found

Solutions to jsonpath: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jsonpath is provided by ruby-jsonpath package.

ruby-jsonpath is:

Every JSON object is composed on an inherent hierarchy and structure. Every JSON ends up creating a tree of nodes, where each node is a JSON Element.

This hierarchy in JSON allows one to create a standard mechanism to traverse through specific parts of the JSON. A standard way to do this is called JSONPath.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-jsonpath

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

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-jsonpath

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-jsonpath

Summary

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