ikiwiki command not found

Introduction

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

ikiwiki: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ikiwiki: command not found

Solutions to ikiwiki: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ikiwiki is provided by ikiwiki package.

ikiwiki is:

Ikiwiki converts a directory full of wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Unlike many wikis, ikiwiki does not have its own ad-hoc means of storing page history, and instead uses a revision control system such as Subversion or Git.

Ikiwiki implements all of the other standard features of a wiki, including web-based page editing, user registration and logins, a RecentChanges page, BackLinks, search, Discussion pages, tags, smart merging and conflict resolution, and page locking.

Ikiwiki also supports generating news feeds (RSS and Atom) and blogging. Ikiwiki provides a plugin system which allows many other features to be added. Some of the plugins have additional dependencies, found among the Recommends and Suggests of this package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ikiwiki

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

You can also use apt command to install ikiwiki.

sudo apt -y install ikiwiki

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

sudo aptitude install ikiwiki

Summary

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