node-pre-gyp command not found

Introduction

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

node-pre-gyp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: node-pre-gyp: command not found

Solutions to node-pre-gyp: command not found

How To Fix node-pre-gyp: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu node-pre-gyp is provided by node-pre-gyp package.

node-pre-gyp is:

This executable extends node-gyp with commands to package, test, and publish Node.js binary addons. It also improves build configuration and module loading.

This version is patched to always build modules from source.

node-gyp is a native addon build tool for Node.js

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-pre-gyp

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

You can also use apt command to install node-pre-gyp.

sudo apt -y install node-pre-gyp

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

sudo aptitude install node-pre-gyp

Summary

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