cola command not found

Introduction

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

cola: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cola: command not found

Solutions to cola: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cola is provided by git-cola package.

git-cola is:

Git-cola is a git GUI optimized for working with the git index.

Git-cola can compare arbitrary commits using standard merge tools. With it you can search commit messages, content, authors, paths, data ranges etc. and it makes it easy to interactively edit the index.

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-cola

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

You can also use apt command to install git-cola.

sudo apt -y install git-cola

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

sudo aptitude install git-cola

Summary

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