shellex command not found

Introduction

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

shellex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shellex: command not found

Solutions to shellex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu shellex is provided by shellex package.

shellex is:

shellex is supposed to be a dmenu-style launcher with a lot more features and a lot simpler design. It launches a shell (currently zsh) and shows it in a small terminal, wrapping every command with a little bit of extra magic (redirecting stdout, stderr, disowning and closing the shell) to get more typical launcher-behaviour.

This gives you a simple launcher with tab-completion and other shell-features, configurable in shell.

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

sudo apt-get -y install shellex

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

You can also use apt command to install shellex.

sudo apt -y install shellex

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

sudo aptitude install shellex

Summary

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