protoc-gen-combo command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
protoc-gen-combo: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: protoc-gen-combo: command not found
Solutions to protoc-gen-combo: command not found
How To Fix protoc-gen-combo: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu protoc-gen-combo is provided by gogoprotobuf package.
gogoprotobuf is:
An alternative protocol buffer support for the Go programming language, forked from golang-goprotobuf. It is backwards compatible with goprotobuf, but provides faster marshalling and unmarshalling and can generate extra helper code, tests and benchmarks.
This package provides utilities.
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install gogoprotobuf
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install gogoprotobuf.
sudo apt -y install gogoprotobuf
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install gogoprotobuf
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix protoc-gen-combo command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.