esix command not found

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

Introduction

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

esix: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: esix: command not found

Solutions to esix: command not found

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

In Ubuntu esix is provided by esix package.

esix is:

ESI-X was the first stored program scientific interpreter for the PDP-8. ESI was designed by Dave Waks on 8/3/66 and was vaguely based on RAND’s JOSS. In 1967 Bob Supnik extended the program to support 8KW of memory, and this became the “ESI-extended” or ESI-X FOCAL was eventually the successor of ESI-X.

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

sudo apt-get -y install esix

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

You can also use apt command to install esix.

sudo apt -y install esix

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

sudo aptitude install esix

Summary

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