inform command not found

Introduction

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

inform: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: inform: command not found

Solutions to inform: command not found

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

In Ubuntu inform is provided by inform6-compiler package.

inform6-compiler is:

Inform 6 is an object-oriented language for writing interactive fiction, also known as “text adventures” or “adventure games”.

As an interactive fiction developer, you create Inform 6 source code defining the story. Then compile from source code to a “story file”. The resulting story files are highly portable, with interpreters available for many different platforms.

The Inform 6 compiler can produce a story file in these formats:

• Z-code, executed by implementations of the Infocom Z-machine.
• Glulx, a modern platform for interactive fiction.

This package installs:

• The Inform 6 compiler program, ‘inform6’.

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

sudo apt-get -y install inform6-compiler

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

You can also use apt command to install inform6-compiler.

sudo apt -y install inform6-compiler

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

sudo aptitude install inform6-compiler

Summary

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