idl2tcl command not found

Introduction

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

idl2tcl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: idl2tcl: command not found

Solutions to idl2tcl: command not found

How To Fix idl2tcl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu idl2tcl is provided by tcl-combat package.

tcl-combat is:

Combat is a CORBA Object Request Broker that allows the implementation of CORBA clients and servers in the Tcl programming language.

On the client side, Combat is not only useful to easily test-drive existing CORBA servers, including the ability for rapid prototyping or to interactively interface with servers from a console, but makes Tcl an exciting language for distributed programming. Also, Tk allows to quickly develop attractive user interfaces accessing CORBA services. Server-side scripting using [incr Tcl] classes also offers a wide range of possibilities.

Combat is compatible with the CORBA 3.0 specification including the IIOP protocol, and has been tested to interoperate with a wide range of open-source and commercial ORBs, including MICO, TAO and ORBexpress.

Combat is written in pure Tcl, allowing it to run on all platforms supported by Tcl, which is a much wider range than supported by any other ORB.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tcl-combat

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

You can also use apt command to install tcl-combat.

sudo apt -y install tcl-combat

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

sudo aptitude install tcl-combat

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix idl2tcl command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.