vile command not found

Introduction

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

vile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vile: command not found

Solutions to vile: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vile is provided by vile package.

vile is:

vile is a text editor which is extremely compatible with vi in terms of ``finger feel’’. In addition, it has extended capabilities in many areas, notably multi-file editing and viewing, syntax highlighting, key rebinding, an optional embedded perl interpreter, and real X window system support.

This package contains the character-mode binary. Required support files are contained in vile-common. Source code highlighting filters are in vile-filters. An X11 binary is in the xvile package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vile

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

You can also use apt command to install vile.

sudo apt -y install vile

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

sudo aptitude install vile

Summary

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