bmfconv command not found

Introduction

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

bmfconv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bmfconv: command not found

Solutions to bmfconv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bmfconv is provided by bmf package.

bmf is:

A small, fast, flexible Bayesian filter for processing e-mail. It is “trained” by the user to categorize email as spam or non-spam. This implementation integrates well with existing tools such as procmail and mutt. It can use a variety of formats for storing data. A utility is supplied for converting data between the supported formats.

This package includes support for text and libdb formats.

See “A Plan for Spam” https://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html by Paul Graham for further information.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bmf

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

You can also use apt command to install bmf.

sudo apt -y install bmf

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

sudo aptitude install bmf

Summary

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