git-merge-changelog command not found

Introduction

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

git-merge-changelog: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-merge-changelog: command not found

Solutions to git-merge-changelog: command not found

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

In Ubuntu git-merge-changelog is provided by git-merge-changelog package.

git-merge-changelog is:

ChangeLog files always foul up most version control systems in their default configuration.

git-merge-changelog is a tool from gnulib designed to help with this for the case of GNU-style ChangeLogs; it can be used with at least git, bzr, and hg.

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-merge-changelog

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

You can also use apt command to install git-merge-changelog.

sudo apt -y install git-merge-changelog

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

sudo aptitude install git-merge-changelog

Summary

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