simhash command not found

Introduction

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

simhash: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: simhash: command not found

Solutions to simhash: command not found

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

In Ubuntu simhash is provided by simhash package.

simhash is:

One of the questions that it’s nice to be able to answer about a pair of files is the degree of similarity between them. This command-line tool is useful for estimating the “degree of similarity” between a pair of nominally sequential files such as textfiles. The tool uses Manassas’s “shingleprinting” technique.

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

sudo apt-get -y install simhash

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

You can also use apt command to install simhash.

sudo apt -y install simhash

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

sudo aptitude install simhash

Summary

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