vim.athena command not found

Introduction

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

vim.athena: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vim.athena: command not found

Solutions to vim.athena: command not found

How To Fix vim.athena: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu vim.athena is provided by vim-athena package.

vim-athena is:

Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.

Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, folding, Unicode support, etc.

This package contains a version of vim compiled with a Athena GUI and support for scripting with Lua, Perl, Python 3, and Tcl.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vim-athena

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

You can also use apt command to install vim-athena.

sudo apt -y install vim-athena

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

sudo aptitude install vim-athena

Summary

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