extract++ command not found

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

Introduction

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

extract++: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: extract++: command not found

Solutions to extract++: command not found

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

In Ubuntu extract++ is provided by swish++ package.

swish++ is:

SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite.

SWISH++ features:

  • Lightning-fast indexing
  • Indexes META elements, ALT, and other attributes
  • Selectively not index text within HTML or XHTML elements
  • Intelligently index mail and news files
  • Index Unix manual page files
  • Apply filters to files on-the-fly prior to indexing
  • Index non-text files such as Microsoft Office documents
  • Modular indexing architecture
  • Index new files incrementally
  • Index remote web sites
  • Handles large collections of files
  • Lightning-fast searching
  • Optional word stemming (suffix stripping)
  • Ability to run as a search server
  • Easy-to-parse results format

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

sudo apt-get -y install swish++

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

You can also use apt command to install swish++.

sudo apt -y install swish++

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

sudo aptitude install swish++

Summary

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