mailsplit command not found

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

Introduction

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

mailsplit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mailsplit: command not found

In Ubuntu mailsplit is provided by hxtools package.

hxtools is:

A collection of tools and scripts that have accumulated over the years, and each of which seems to be too small to warrants its own project.

bsvplay(1) - convert BASICA music files to PCM
cctypeinfo(1) - show sizes of C types on the implementation it was compiled with
checkbrack(1) - check parenthesis and bracket count
declone(1) - break hardlinks
diff2php(1) - transform patch to self-serving PHP file
fd0ssh(1) - pipe for password-over-stdin support to ssh
fnt2bdf(1) - convert VGA raw fonts to X11 BDF
gpsh(1) - grep in tracklists and play audio files
logontime(8) - show cumulative logon time from wtmp
mailsplit(1) - split an mbox into single files
mod2opus(1) – wrapper for tracker module/MIDI to Opus transcoding
hxnetload(8) – show utilization of network interface
ofl(1) - open file lister (replaces fuser and lsof -m)
paddrspacesize(1) - print size of processes’ address spaces
pesubst(1) - perl-regexp stream substitution (replaces sed for sub-stitutions)
pmap_dirty(1) - display amount of RAM a process uses hard
proc_iomem_count(1) - show MMIO region sizes
qplay(1) - convert QBASIC play strings to PCM
qtar(1) - faster interface to tar with file ordering
recursive_lower(1) - recursively lowercase all filenames
sourcefuncsize(1) - statistical analysis of code
spec-beautifier(1) - program to clean up RPM .spec files
su1(8) - what sudo should have done
utmp_register(1) - make entries in the utmp/wtmp database
vcsaview(8) - display a screen dump in VCSA format
vfontas(1) - VGA font file assembler
wktimer(1) - work timer

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

sudo apt-get -y install hxtools

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

You can also use apt command to install hxtools.

sudo apt -y install hxtools

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

sudo aptitude install hxtools

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