wiggle command not found

Introduction

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

wiggle: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wiggle: command not found

Solutions to wiggle: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wiggle is provided by wiggle package.

wiggle is:

Wiggle is a program for applying patches that ‘patch’ cannot apply due to conflicting changes in the original.

Wiggle will always apply all changes in the patch to the original. If it cannot find a way to cleanly apply a patch, it inserts it in the original in a manner similar to ‘merge’, and report an unresolvable conflict.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wiggle

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

You can also use apt command to install wiggle.

sudo apt -y install wiggle

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

sudo aptitude install wiggle

Summary

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