dimbl command not found

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

Introduction

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

dimbl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dimbl: command not found

Solutions to dimbl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dimbl is provided by dimbl package.

dimbl is:

Dimbl is a wrapper around the k-nearest neighbor classifier in TiMBL, offering parallel classification on multi-CPU machines. Dimbl splits the original training set, builds separate TiMBL classifiers per training subset, and merges their nearest-neighbor sets per classified instance

Dimbl’s features are:

  • Wraps neatly around TiMBL, retaining all command line options;
  • Knows what to do with your multiple, duo, or quad cores;
  • Makes use of the OpenMP specification for parallel programming;
  • Can attain superlinear speed gains compared to standard TiMBL.

Dimbl is a product of the ILK Research Group (Tilburg University, The Netherlands).

If you do scientific research in Natural Language Processing using the Memory-Based Learning technique, Dimbl will likely be of use to you.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dimbl

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

You can also use apt command to install dimbl.

sudo apt -y install dimbl

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

sudo aptitude install dimbl

Summary

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