eric6_compare command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix eric6_compare command not found error message

Introduction

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

eric6_compare: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eric6_compare: command not found

In Ubuntu eric6_compare is provided by eric package.

eric is:

eric is a full featured Python IDE written in PyQt using the QScintilla editor widget. Some highlights

Any number of editors with configurable syntax highlighting, code folding, auto indenting and brace highlighting.
Integrated Project Management facility to organize your projects. The project browser shows all source files, all forms and all translations each on its own tab. The source browser has built in class browsing capabilities.
Integrated and full featured debuggers for Python and Ruby.
Interactive shells for Python and Ruby.
An explorer window for walking through your directory structure with built in class browsing capabilities for Python files.
Variable windows that display local and global variables in the current scope while debugging a program.
An integrated interface to the Python Module “unittest”.
An integrated help viewer to display HTML help files. Alternatively you can choose to use Qt-Assistant to view help files.
Display of the UI in different languages.
The capability to start Qt-Designer and Qt-Linguist from within eric5.
The ability to compile Qt-Designer forms, to produce Qt-Linguist files and release them from within the IDE.

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

sudo apt-get -y install eric

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

You can also use apt command to install eric.

sudo apt -y install eric

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

sudo aptitude install eric

In this tutorial we learn how to fix eric6_compare command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.