sim_c++ command not found

Introduction

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

sim_c++: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sim_c++: command not found

Solutions to sim_c++: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sim_c++ is provided by similarity-tester package.

similarity-tester is:

Find lexical similarities in texts in C, C++, Java, Pascal, Modula-2, Lisp, Miranda and natural language. This can be used to detect potentially duplicated code fragments in large software projects and to detect plagiarism in software and text-based projects, educational and otherwise.

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

sudo apt-get -y install similarity-tester

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

You can also use apt command to install similarity-tester.

sudo apt -y install similarity-tester

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

sudo aptitude install similarity-tester

Summary

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