emacs-nox command not found

Introduction

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

emacs-nox: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: emacs-nox: command not found

Solutions to emacs-nox: command not found

How To Fix emacs-nox: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu emacs-nox is provided by emacs-nox package.

emacs-nox is:

GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains a version of Emacs compiled without support for X, and provides only a text terminal interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install emacs-nox

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

You can also use apt command to install emacs-nox.

sudo apt -y install emacs-nox

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

sudo aptitude install emacs-nox

Summary

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