embpexec command not found

Introduction

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

embpexec: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: embpexec: command not found

Solutions to embpexec: command not found

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

In Ubuntu embpexec is provided by libembperl-perl package.

libembperl-perl is:

Embperl gives you the power to embed Perl code in your HTML/XML documents and the ability to build your Web site out of small reusable objects in an object-oriented style. You can also take advantage of all the usual Perl modules, (including DBI for database access) use their functionality and easily include their output in your web pages.

Embperl has several features which are especially useful for creating Websites, including dynamic tables, form field processing, URL escaping/unescaping, session handling, caching, XSLT transformation and more. See http://www.embperl.org/embperl/ for more information about Embperl.

This package contains Apache2, FastCGI, CGI and offline versions of Embperl, although you may need to install some additional packages to use some of those modes. Please note that when running under mod_perl, Embperl requires Apache’s prefork mpm module and will not work with the more recent worker mpm.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libembperl-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libembperl-perl.

sudo apt -y install libembperl-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libembperl-perl

Summary

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