omniidl command not found

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

Introduction

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

omniidl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: omniidl: command not found

Solutions to omniidl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu omniidl is provided by omniidl package.

omniidl is:

omniORB4 is a freely available Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) 2.6 compliant object request broker (ORB) implementation. It is based on the IIOP communications protocol and should be interoperable with any other CORBA 2.6 compliant ORB.

This includes the idl compiler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install omniidl

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

You can also use apt command to install omniidl.

sudo apt -y install omniidl

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

sudo aptitude install omniidl

Summary

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