diffuse command not found

Introduction

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

diffuse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: diffuse: command not found

Solutions to diffuse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu diffuse is provided by diffuse package.

diffuse is:

Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the ability to manually adjust line-matching and directly edit files. Diffuse can also retrieve revisions of files from bazaar, CVS, darcs, git, mercurial, monotone, Subversion and GNU Revision Control System (RCS) repositories for comparison and merging.

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

sudo apt-get -y install diffuse

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

You can also use apt command to install diffuse.

sudo apt -y install diffuse

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

sudo aptitude install diffuse

Summary

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