abiword command not found

Introduction

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

abiword: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: abiword: command not found

Solutions to abiword: command not found

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

In Ubuntu abiword is provided by abiword package.

abiword is:

AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks, and is extensible with a variety of plugins.

This package includes many of the available import/export plugins allowing AbiWord to interact with ODT, WordPerfect, and other formats. It also includes tools plugins, offering live collaboration with AbiWord users on Linux and Windows (using TCP or Jabber/XMPP), web translation and dictionary support, and more.

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

sudo apt-get -y install abiword

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

You can also use apt command to install abiword.

sudo apt -y install abiword

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

sudo aptitude install abiword

Summary

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