pre-commit-validate-config command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pre-commit-validate-config command not found error message

Introduction

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

pre-commit-validate-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pre-commit-validate-config: command not found

In Ubuntu pre-commit-validate-config is provided by pre-commit package.

pre-commit is:

A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language Git pre-commit hooks.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pre-commit

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

You can also use apt command to install pre-commit.

sudo apt -y install pre-commit

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

sudo aptitude install pre-commit

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