cvsmgdiff command not found

Introduction

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

cvsmgdiff: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cvsmgdiff: command not found

Solutions to cvsmgdiff: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cvsmgdiff is provided by mgdiff package.

mgdiff is:

mgdiff is modeled after xdiff and provides a nice graphical interface for comparing the contents of two text files. rmgdiff recurses down two directories collating difference information and invoking mgdiff whenever two text files differ.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mgdiff

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

You can also use apt command to install mgdiff.

sudo apt -y install mgdiff

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

sudo aptitude install mgdiff

Summary

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