micro command not found

Introduction

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

micro: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: micro: command not found

Solutions to micro: command not found

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

In Ubuntu micro is provided by micro package.

micro is:

micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.

As the name indicates, micro aims to be somewhat of a successor to the nano editor by being easy to install and use.

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

sudo apt-get -y install micro

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

You can also use apt command to install micro.

sudo apt -y install micro

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

sudo aptitude install micro

Summary

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