mkgrkindex command not found

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

Introduction

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

mkgrkindex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkgrkindex: command not found

In Ubuntu mkgrkindex is provided by texlive-lang-greek package.

texlive-lang-greek is:

Support for Greek.

This package includes the following CTAN packages:

babel-greek – Babel support for documents written in Greek

begingreek – Greek environment to be used with pdfLaTeX only

betababel – Insert ancient greek text coded in Beta Code

cbfonts – Complete set of Greek fonts

cbfonts-fd – LaTeX font description files for the CB Greek fonts

gfsbaskerville – A Greek font, from one such by Baskerville

gfsporson – A Greek font, originally from Porson

greek-fontenc – LICR macros and encoding definition files for Greek

greek-inputenc – Greek encoding support for inputenc

greekdates – Provides ancient Greek day and month names, dates, etc

greektex – Fonts for typesetting Greek/English documents

greektonoi – Facilitates writing/editing of multiaccented greek

hyphen-ancientgreek – Ancient Greek hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-greek – Modern Greek hyphenation patterns.

ibycus-babel – Use the Ibycus 4 Greek font with Babel

ibygrk – Fonts and macros to typeset ancient Greek

kerkis – Kerkis (Greek) font family

levy – Fonts for typesetting classical greek

lgreek – LaTeX macros for using Silvio Levy’s Greek fonts

mkgrkindex – Makeindex working with Greek

talos – A Greek cult font from the eighties

teubner – Philological typesetting of classical Greek

xgreek – XeLaTeX package for typesetting Greek language documents (beta release)

yannisgr – Greek fonts by Yannis Haralambous

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

sudo apt-get -y install texlive-lang-greek

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

You can also use apt command to install texlive-lang-greek.

sudo apt -y install texlive-lang-greek

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

sudo aptitude install texlive-lang-greek

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