dump_index command not found

Introduction

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

dump_index: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dump_index: command not found

Solutions to dump_index: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dump_index is provided by libplucene-perl package.

libplucene-perl is:

Plucene is a fully-featured and highly customizable search engine toolkit based on the Lucene API. (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene)

It is not, in and of itself, a functional search engine - you are expected to subclass and tie all the pieces together to suit your own needs. The synopsis above gives a rough indication of how to use the engine in simple cases. See Plucene::Simple for one example of tying it all together.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libplucene-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libplucene-perl.

sudo apt -y install libplucene-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libplucene-perl

Summary

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