ssgrep command not found

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

Introduction

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

ssgrep: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ssgrep: command not found

Solutions to ssgrep: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ssgrep is provided by gnumeric package.

gnumeric is:

Gnumeric is a spreadsheet application that interoperates well with other spreadsheets. It comes with plugins that enable it to deal with commonly used spreadsheet file formats.

The following formats can be imported and exported:

  • Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP (.xls);
  • Microsoft Excel 95 (.xls);
  • OASIS XML, OpenOffice.org XML, StarOffice (.sxc);
  • Comma/Character Separated Values (.csv);
  • Data Interchange Format (.dif);
  • Applix version 4 (.as).

Additionally, the following formats can be imported:

  • GNU Oleo (.oleo);
  • Linear and integer program expression format (.mps);
  • Lotus 1-2-3 (.wks, .wk1);
  • MS MultiPlan SYLK (.sylk);
  • WordPerfect family “Plan Perfect” (.pln);
  • Quattro Pro (tm);
  • XSpread or SC;
  • XBase (.dbf).

Gnumeric can export to LaTeX 2e (.tex), TROFF (.me) and HTML as well.

Gnumeric should be easy to use, in particular for users familiar with Excel.

Gnumeric is a GNOME application. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnumeric

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

You can also use apt command to install gnumeric.

sudo apt -y install gnumeric

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

sudo aptitude install gnumeric

Summary

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