loose-envify command not found

Introduction

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

loose-envify: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: loose-envify: command not found

Solutions to loose-envify: command not found

How To Fix loose-envify: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu loose-envify is provided by node-loose-envify package.

node-loose-envify is:

Performs a Javascript source-to-source transformation (transpiling), that efficiently replaces process.env environment variables with plain strings. This makes the environment variable checks faster and easier to optimize out.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-loose-envify

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

You can also use apt command to install node-loose-envify.

sudo apt -y install node-loose-envify

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

sudo aptitude install node-loose-envify

Summary

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