wmf command not found

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

Introduction

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

wmf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wmf: command not found

Solutions to wmf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wmf is provided by wmf package.

wmf is:

This program converts emails to HTML and makes index files (by author, data, subject,thread). Of course there are other programs making the same, but here are some features which not all have:

  • correct threading without level limitation
  • quoted-printable text encoding
  • home page hyperlink (X-URL)
  • faces support
  • breaking indexes in different pages to make them smaller (don’t break between threads)
  • index time limitation (older mail disappears from the index)
  • frame support

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmf

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

You can also use apt command to install wmf.

sudo apt -y install wmf

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

sudo aptitude install wmf

Summary

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