protoc-gen-beefcake command not found

Introduction

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

protoc-gen-beefcake: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: protoc-gen-beefcake: command not found

Solutions to protoc-gen-beefcake: command not found

How To Fix protoc-gen-beefcake: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu protoc-gen-beefcake is provided by ruby-beefcake package.

ruby-beefcake is:

A sane Google Protocol Buffers library for Ruby. This package provides a generator plugin for the Protocol Buffer compiler which generates Ruby marshaling and unmarshaling code for data encoded in Protocol Buffer format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-beefcake

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-beefcake.

sudo apt -y install ruby-beefcake

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-beefcake

Summary

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