From 469038f5965dad136c899b790b5bbba5b76cc82b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noel De Martin <noel@moodle.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:04:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] MOBILE-4362 lang: Improve error message

---
 scripts/lang_functions.sh | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/lang_functions.sh b/scripts/lang_functions.sh
index fa7b4fab3..649f57c1a 100644
--- a/scripts/lang_functions.sh
+++ b/scripts/lang_functions.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ function get_app_version {
         return
     fi
 
+    if ! command -v jq &> /dev/null
+    then
+        echo "You need to install the jq program in order to run this command"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
     APP_VERSION=$(jq -r '.versionname' ../moodle.config.json| cut -d. -f1-2)
     if [ ! -z "$APP_VERSION" ]; then
         export LANGVERSION=$APP_VERSION