kapt command not found

Introduction

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

kapt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kapt: command not found

Solutions to kapt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kapt is provided by kotlin package.

kotlin is:

Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference. Kotlin is designed to interoperate fully with Java, and the JVM version of its standard library depends on the Java Class Library, but type inference allows its syntax to be more concise.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kotlin

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

You can also use apt command to install kotlin.

sudo apt -y install kotlin

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

sudo aptitude install kotlin

Summary

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