mockgen command not found

Introduction

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

mockgen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mockgen: command not found

Solutions to mockgen: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mockgen is provided by mockgen package.

mockgen is:

GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language. It integrates well with Go’s built-in testing package, but can be used in other contexts too.

This package provides the “mockgen” utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mockgen

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

You can also use apt command to install mockgen.

sudo apt -y install mockgen

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

sudo aptitude install mockgen

Summary

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