idxmerge command not found

Introduction

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

idxmerge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: idxmerge: command not found

Solutions to idxmerge: command not found

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

In Ubuntu idxmerge is provided by fweb package.

fweb is:

Literate-programming allows the programmer to write a program’s code and its code’s documentation, with equal importance accorded to both. This helps producing a well-documented code.

FWEB has grown out of Knuth and Levy’s CWEB; it is far more configurable and customizable than the original, uses LaTeX to typeset documented code, provides a very powerful macro processor…

Ratfor programmers may appreciate the builtin Ratfor-to-Fortran translator if they don’t have the right compiler.

Other languages than those cited may be used, but without code pretty-printing.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fweb

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

You can also use apt command to install fweb.

sudo apt -y install fweb

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

sudo aptitude install fweb

Summary

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