tap2junit command not found

Introduction

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

tap2junit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tap2junit: command not found

Solutions to tap2junit: command not found

How To Fix tap2junit: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu tap2junit is provided by libtap-formatter-junit-perl package.

libtap-formatter-junit-perl is:

TAP::Formatter::JUnit provides JUnit XML output formatting for TAP::Harness. It can be used with prove, for example, to format the output of a test suite into a JUnit XML document. It is particularly intended for integrating Perl or TAP test suites into the Hudson and Jenkins continuous integration servers. (Previously, they had a JUnit plugin but no TAP plugin. Nowadays, you could perhaps also use the TAP plugin instead.)

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtap-formatter-junit-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libtap-formatter-junit-perl.

sudo apt -y install libtap-formatter-junit-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libtap-formatter-junit-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix tap2junit command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.