scriptindex command not found

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

Introduction

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

scriptindex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scriptindex: command not found

In Ubuntu scriptindex is provided by xapian-omega package.

xapian-omega is:

This package contains:

the “omega” CGI application which provides a customisable web interface for searching Xapian databases.
the “omindex” tool for indexing a directory tree of documents into a Xapian database in a form suitable for searching with omega.
the “scriptindex” indexer, which takes a simple text input format representing documents as a set of fields, together with an “index script” file specifying actions to be performed on each field, and indexes the documents into a Xapian database.
some example scripts for converting data from different sources into a form suitable for processing with “scriptindex”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xapian-omega

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

You can also use apt command to install xapian-omega.

sudo apt -y install xapian-omega

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

sudo aptitude install xapian-omega

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