git-imerge command not found

Introduction

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

git-imerge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-imerge: command not found

Solutions to git-imerge: command not found

How To Fix git-imerge: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-imerge is provided by git-imerge package.

git-imerge is:

Performs a merge between two branches incrementally. If conflicts are encountered, figures out exactly which pairs of commits conflict, and presents the user with one pairwise conflict at a time for resolution.

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-imerge

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

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

sudo apt -y install git-imerge

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

sudo aptitude install git-imerge

Summary

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