tap-mocha-reporter command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix tap-mocha-reporter command not found error message

Introduction

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

tap-mocha-reporter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tap-mocha-reporter: command not found

In Ubuntu tap-mocha-reporter is provided by node-tap-mocha-reporter package.

node-tap-mocha-reporter is:

This module allows one to format node-tap output like output of Mocha test framework.

node-tap is a Node.js implementation of TAP a simple text-based interface shared between testing modules implemented in many popular languages.

Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on Node.js and browser, making asynchronous testing simple.

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-mocha-reporter

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

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

sudo apt -y install node-tap-mocha-reporter

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

sudo aptitude install node-tap-mocha-reporter

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