kitchen command not found

Introduction

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

kitchen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kitchen: command not found

Solutions to kitchen: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kitchen is provided by test-kitchen package.

test-kitchen is:

Test Kitchen is a test harness tool to execute your configured code on one or more platforms in isolation. A driver plugin architecture is used which lets you run your code on various cloud providers and virtualization technologies such as Amazon EC2, Blue Box, CloudStack, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, OpenStack, Vagrant, Docker, LXC containers, and more. Many testing frameworks are already supported out of the box including Bats, shUnit2, RSpec, Serverspec, with others being created weekly.

For Chef workflows, cookbook dependency resolver tools such as Berkshelf and Librarian-Chef are supported or you can simply have a cookbooks/ directory and Test Kitchen will know what to do. Support for Test Kitchen is already included in many Chef community cookbooks such as the MySQL, nginx, Chef Server, and runit cookbooks.

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

sudo apt-get -y install test-kitchen

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

You can also use apt command to install test-kitchen.

sudo apt -y install test-kitchen

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

sudo aptitude install test-kitchen

Summary

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