sigil command not found

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

Introduction

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

sigil: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sigil: command not found

In Ubuntu sigil is provided by sigil package.

sigil is:

Sigil is a free, open source, multi-platform ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

Features:

Full UTF-16 support;
Full EPUB 2 spec support;
Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View;
WYSIWYG editing in Book View;
Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View;
Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support;
Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each;
User interface translated into many languages;
Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries;
Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace;
Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets;
Files can be validated for EPUB compliance with the FlightCrew validator;
HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sigil

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

You can also use apt command to install sigil.

sudo apt -y install sigil

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

sudo aptitude install sigil

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