codespell command not found

Introduction

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

codespell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: codespell: command not found

Solutions to codespell: command not found

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

In Ubuntu codespell is provided by codespell package.

codespell is:

codespell is designed to find and fix common misspellings in text files. It is designed primarily for checking misspelled words in source code, but it can be used with other files as well.

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

sudo apt-get -y install codespell

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

You can also use apt command to install codespell.

sudo apt -y install codespell

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

sudo aptitude install codespell

Summary

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