helpztags command not found

Introduction

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

helpztags: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: helpztags: command not found

Solutions to helpztags: command not found

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

In Ubuntu helpztags is provided by vim-common package.

vim-common is:

Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.

This package contains files shared by all non GUI-enabled vim variants available in Debian. Examples of such shared files are: manpages and configuration files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vim-common

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

You can also use apt command to install vim-common.

sudo apt -y install vim-common

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

sudo aptitude install vim-common

Summary

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