tape command not found

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

Introduction

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

tape: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tape: command not found

In Ubuntu tape is provided by node-tape package.

node-tape is:

Tape is a tap-producing test harness for node and browsers requiring only a few line of code. It can be used for unit and integration testing.

Tests are written in pure javascript, so tests could be run using Node.js.

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-tape

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

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

sudo apt -y install node-tape

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

sudo aptitude install node-tape

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