devhelp command not found

Introduction

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

devhelp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: devhelp: command not found

Solutions to devhelp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu devhelp is provided by devhelp package.

devhelp is:

Devhelp’s primary goal is to be an API documentation browser for GNOME. It is able to scan for .devhelp files generated automatically for packages that use gtk-doc-tools to generate documentation for libraries and programs.

Devhelp provides some integration capabilities, which is used to allow command-line searches, emacs integration and embedding in applications like the Anjuta IDE.

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

sudo apt-get -y install devhelp

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

You can also use apt command to install devhelp.

sudo apt -y install devhelp

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

sudo aptitude install devhelp

Summary

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