reply command not found

Introduction

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

reply: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: reply: command not found

Solutions to reply: command not found

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

In Ubuntu reply is provided by libreply-perl package.

libreply-perl is:

Reply (“read, eval, print, loop, yay!”) is a lightweight, extensible REPL for Perl. It is plugin-based (see Reply::Plugin), and through plugins supports many advanced features such as coloring and pretty printing, readline support, and pluggable commands.

NOTE: This is an early release, and implementation details of this module are still very much in flux. Feedback is welcome!

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

sudo apt-get -y install libreply-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libreply-perl.

sudo apt -y install libreply-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libreply-perl

Summary

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