tabmerge command not found

Introduction

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

tabmerge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tabmerge: command not found

Solutions to tabmerge: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tabmerge is provided by libtext-recordparser-perl package.

libtext-recordparser-perl is:

Text::RecordParser is a Perl module that extracts record-oriented data from arbitrary text files. The most common example has records separated by newlines and fields delimited by commas or tabs. This module aims to provide a consistent interface for processing an arbitrary sequence of records in a file, however they may be delimited. The data can then be extracted using arrays or hashes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtext-recordparser-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libtext-recordparser-perl.

sudo apt -y install libtext-recordparser-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libtext-recordparser-perl

Summary

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