neomutt command not found

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

Introduction

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

neomutt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: neomutt: command not found

Solutions to neomutt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu neomutt is provided by neomutt package.

neomutt is:

Neomutt supports all the features that are supported by Mutt, including POP and IMAP support, SSL encryption and SASL authentication, threading and GPG support. On the top of that, neomutt provides:

  • Notmuch: a mail indexing tools that provides advanced features such as full-text search, thread reconstruction and added features.
  • Color attachment headers using regex, just like mail bodies.
  • Custom rules for theming the mail index.
  • NNTP support.
  • Visual progress bar for slow operations.
  • Trash folder.

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

sudo apt-get -y install neomutt

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

You can also use apt command to install neomutt.

sudo apt -y install neomutt

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

sudo aptitude install neomutt

Summary

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