sprockets command not found

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

Introduction

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

sprockets: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sprockets: command not found

In Ubuntu sprockets is provided by ruby-sprockets package.

ruby-sprockets is:

Sprockets is a Rack-based asset packaging system that concatenates and serves JavaScript, CoffeeScript, CSS, LESS, Sass, and SCSS.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-sprockets

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

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-sprockets

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-sprockets

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