jhsearch command not found

Introduction

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

jhsearch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jhsearch: command not found

Solutions to jhsearch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jhsearch is provided by javahelp2 package.

javahelp2 is:

The JavaHelp system is an online help system that developers can use to add online help to their Java platform applications. The JavaHelp system provides developers and authors with a standard, fully featured, easy to use system for presenting online information to Java application users. The JavaHelp system consists of a fully featured, extensible specification and API, and a reference implementation of that specification and API that is written entirely in the Java programming language. The JavaHelp system reference implementation, based on the Java Foundation Classes (JFC, also known as Swing), provides a standard interface that enables both application developers and authors to add online help to their applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install javahelp2

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

You can also use apt command to install javahelp2.

sudo apt -y install javahelp2

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

sudo aptitude install javahelp2

Summary

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