meld command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix meld command not found error message

Introduction

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

meld: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: meld: command not found

Solutions to meld: command not found

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

In Ubuntu meld is provided by meld package.

meld is:

Meld is a graphical diff viewer and merge application for the GNOME desktop. It supports 2 and 3-file diffs, recursive directory diffs, diffing of directories under version control (Bazaar, Codeville, CVS, Darcs, Fossil SCM, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion), as well as the ability to manually and automatically merge file differences.

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

sudo apt-get -y install meld

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

You can also use apt command to install meld.

sudo apt -y install meld

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

sudo aptitude install meld

Summary

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