semver command not found

Introduction

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

semver: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: semver: command not found

Solutions to semver: command not found

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

In Ubuntu semver is provided by node-semver package.

node-semver is:

Test if version(s) satisfy the supplied range(s), and sort them. Multiple versions or ranges may be supplied. Program exits successfully if any valid version satisfies all supplied ranges, and prints all satisfying versions.

This package provides the semver executable and the Node.js module.

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-semver

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

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

sudo apt -y install node-semver

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

sudo aptitude install node-semver

Summary

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