rimraf command not found

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

Introduction

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

rimraf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rimraf: command not found

In Ubuntu rimraf is provided by node-rimraf package.

node-rimraf is:

node-rimraf is a Node.js module that provides asynchronous deep-deletion of files and directories.

The rimraf executable is a faster alternative to the rm -rf shell command.

Node.js is an event-based server-side javascript engine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-rimraf

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

You can also use apt command to install node-rimraf.

sudo apt -y install node-rimraf

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

sudo aptitude install node-rimraf

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