luacheck command not found

Introduction

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

luacheck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: luacheck: command not found

Solutions to luacheck: command not found

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

In Ubuntu luacheck is provided by lua-check package.

lua-check is:

Luacheck is a static analyzer and a linter for Lua which detects issues such as usage of undefined global variables, unused variables and values, etc. It is fairly configurable and can be used as a part of automated testing, manually from the command line or inside an editor.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lua-check

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

You can also use apt command to install lua-check.

sudo apt -y install lua-check

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

sudo aptitude install lua-check

Summary

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