phing command not found

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

Introduction

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

phing: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: phing: command not found

Solutions to phing: command not found

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

In Ubuntu phing is provided by phing package.

phing is:

PHing Is Not GNU make; it’s a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations, etc.), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, and much more.

Phing provides the following features:

  • Simple XML buildfiles
  • Rich set of provided tasks
  • Easily extendable via PHP classes

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

sudo apt-get -y install phing

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

You can also use apt command to install phing.

sudo apt -y install phing

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

sudo aptitude install phing

Summary

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