etags.emacs command not found

Introduction

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

etags.emacs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: etags.emacs: command not found

Solutions to etags.emacs: command not found

How To Fix etags.emacs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu etags.emacs is provided by emacs-bin-common package.

emacs-bin-common is:

GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains the architecture dependent infrastructure that’s shared by emacs-gtk, emacs-lucid, and emacs-nox.

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

sudo apt-get -y install emacs-bin-common

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

You can also use apt command to install emacs-bin-common.

sudo apt -y install emacs-bin-common

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

sudo aptitude install emacs-bin-common

Summary

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