restclient command not found

Introduction

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

restclient: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: restclient: command not found

Solutions to restclient: command not found

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

In Ubuntu restclient is provided by ruby-rest-client package.

ruby-rest-client is:

A simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by the Sinatra microframework style of specifying actions: get, put, post, delete. The package also includes the program restclient, it can be used to easily test REST APIs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rest-client

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-rest-client.

sudo apt -y install ruby-rest-client

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-rest-client

Summary

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