ycmd command not found

Introduction

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

ycmd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ycmd: command not found

Solutions to ycmd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ycmd is provided by ycmd package.

ycmd is:

ycmd is a server that provides APIs for code-completion and other code-comprehension use-cases like semantic GoTo commands (and others). For certain filetypes, ycmd can also provide diagnostic errors and warnings.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ycmd

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

You can also use apt command to install ycmd.

sudo apt -y install ycmd

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

sudo aptitude install ycmd

Summary

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