nanoid command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix nanoid command not found error message

Introduction

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

nanoid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nanoid: command not found

Solutions to nanoid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nanoid is provided by node-postcss package.

node-postcss is:

These plugins can lint your CSS, support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more.

PostCSS is used by industry leaders including Wikipedia, Twitter, Alibaba, and JetBrains. The [Autoprefixer] PostCSS plugin is one of the most popular CSS processors.

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-postcss

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

You can also use apt command to install node-postcss.

sudo apt -y install node-postcss

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

sudo aptitude install node-postcss

Summary

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