vimtutor command not found

Introduction

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

vimtutor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vimtutor: command not found

Solutions to vimtutor: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vimtutor is provided by vim-runtime package.

vim-runtime is:

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

This package contains vimtutor and the architecture independent runtime files, used, if available, by all vim variants available in Debian. Example of such runtime files are: online documentation, rules for language-specific syntax highlighting and indentation, color schemes, and standard plugins.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vim-runtime

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

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

sudo apt -y install vim-runtime

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

sudo aptitude install vim-runtime

Summary

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