sgfsplit command not found

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

Introduction

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

sgfsplit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sgfsplit: command not found

Solutions to sgfsplit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sgfsplit is provided by sgf2dg package.

sgf2dg is:

Go is a board game from Eastern Asia and TeX is a program for typesetting. sgf2dg converts Go game records in smart-go format (SGF) into TeX files. You can produce camera-ready copies for books or magazines, or simply generate attractive printouts of your (internet) Go games.

sgf2dg includes the Metafont sources for a new set of Go fonts, and a script, sgf2dg (formerly sgf2tex), which translates files in sgf-format into TeX.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sgf2dg

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

You can also use apt command to install sgf2dg.

sudo apt -y install sgf2dg

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

sudo aptitude install sgf2dg

Summary

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