sdoc-merge command not found

Introduction

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

sdoc-merge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sdoc-merge: command not found

Solutions to sdoc-merge: command not found

How To Fix sdoc-merge: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sdoc-merge is provided by ruby-sdoc package.

ruby-sdoc is:

This package provides extra generators and templates for the RDoc documentation tool for Ruby. Generated HTML documentation has a javascript search index, so the documentation is searchable without any server-side requirements other than a web server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-sdoc

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-sdoc.

sudo apt -y install ruby-sdoc

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-sdoc

Summary

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