node-sass command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix node-sass command not found error message

Introduction

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

node-sass: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: node-sass: command not found

In Ubuntu node-sass is provided by node-node-sass package.

node-node-sass is:

Node-sass is a library that provides binding for Node.js to LibSass.

LibSass is the C version of the popular stylesheet preprocessor, Sass.

It allows you to natively compile .scss files to css at incredible speed and automatically via a connect middleware.

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-node-sass

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

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

sudo apt -y install node-node-sass

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

sudo aptitude install node-node-sass

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