indent command not found

Introduction

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

indent: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: indent: command not found

Solutions to indent: command not found

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

In Ubuntu indent is provided by indent package.

indent is:

The `indent’ program changes the appearance of a C program by inserting or deleting whitespace.

`indent’ also provides options for controlling the alignment of braces and declarations, program indenting, and other stylistic parameters, including formatting of both C and C++ comments.

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

sudo apt-get -y install indent

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

You can also use apt command to install indent.

sudo apt -y install indent

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

sudo aptitude install indent

Summary

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