phpcbf command not found

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

Introduction

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

phpcbf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: phpcbf: command not found

Solutions to phpcbf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu phpcbf is provided by php-codesniffer package.

php-codesniffer is:

PHP_CodeSniffer is a set of two PHP scripts; the main phpcs script that tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files to detect violations of a defined coding standard, and a second phpcbf script to automatically correct coding standard violations. PHP_CodeSniffer is an essential development tool that ensures your code remains clean and consistent.

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

sudo apt-get -y install php-codesniffer

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

You can also use apt command to install php-codesniffer.

sudo apt -y install php-codesniffer

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

sudo aptitude install php-codesniffer

Summary

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