copy-svnmk command not found

Introduction

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

copy-svnmk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: copy-svnmk: command not found

Solutions to copy-svnmk: command not found

How To Fix copy-svnmk: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu copy-svnmk is provided by ignore-me package.

ignore-me is:

This program helps by creating a ignore file for your autotools basedproject. After installing it provides some binaries, which can copy the shipped Makefile into your current project directory. Currently it supports BZR, CVS, GIT, HG and SVN. The Makefiles itself providing some useful rules for blacklisting some of your files to put them into the ignore file. See it man pages for further information.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ignore-me

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

You can also use apt command to install ignore-me.

sudo apt -y install ignore-me

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

sudo aptitude install ignore-me

Summary

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