tap command not found

Introduction

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

tap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tap: command not found

Solutions to tap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tap is provided by node-tap package.

node-tap is:

Utilities for writing test harnesses complying with TAP output format.

TAP is a simple text-based interface between testing modules implemented in many popular languages.

This package includes leaf package node-bind-obj-methods, node-fs-exists-cached, node-function-loop, node-own-or, node-own-or-env, node-trivial-deferred, node-tsame, node-yapool

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-tap

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

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

sudo apt -y install node-tap

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

sudo aptitude install node-tap

Summary

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