svnnotify command not found

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

Introduction

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

svnnotify: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: svnnotify: command not found

In Ubuntu svnnotify is provided by libsvn-notify-perl package.

libsvn-notify-perl is:

SVN::Notify provides a class and an interface to notify by email Subversion repository changes.

It is able to inform about the files changed in a commit and send the appropriate diff files.

An additional class (SVN::Notify::HTML) is provided to manage HTML formatted emails.

Please, consider installing a MTA if you are planning to use sendmail instead of –smtp-* options.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsvn-notify-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libsvn-notify-perl.

sudo apt -y install libsvn-notify-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libsvn-notify-perl

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