proofgeneral command not found

Introduction

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

proofgeneral: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: proofgeneral: command not found

Solutions to proofgeneral: command not found

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

In Ubuntu proofgeneral is provided by proofgeneral package.

proofgeneral is:

Proof General is a major mode to turn Emacs into an interactive proof assistant to write formal mathematical proofs using a variety of theorem provers.

This package provides Proof General support for Coq. (There is no other proof assistant that one could sensibly support.)

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

sudo apt-get -y install proofgeneral

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

You can also use apt command to install proofgeneral.

sudo apt -y install proofgeneral

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

sudo aptitude install proofgeneral

Summary

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