pinot-index command not found

Introduction

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

pinot-index: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pinot-index: command not found

Solutions to pinot-index: command not found

How To Fix pinot-index: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pinot-index is provided by pinot package.

pinot is:

Pinot provides a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes your documents and monitors them for changes. This service can then be used via a command-line interface, or through a GTK-based GUI that enables to query the index built by the service and your favourite Web engines, and display and analyze the results.

Pinot also provides a Xesam interface, which can be used through Xesam Query Language and Xesam User Language.

To crawl rpm files, install the packages rpm and file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pinot

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

You can also use apt command to install pinot.

sudo apt -y install pinot

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

sudo aptitude install pinot

Summary

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