xclip-pastefile command not found

Introduction

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

xclip-pastefile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xclip-pastefile: command not found

Solutions to xclip-pastefile: command not found

How To Fix xclip-pastefile: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xclip-pastefile is provided by xclip package.

xclip is:

xclip is a command line utility that is designed to run on any system with an X11 implementation. It provides an interface to X selections (“the clipboard”) from the command line. It can read data from standard in or a file and place it in an X selection for pasting into other X applications. xclip can also print an X selection to standard out, which can then be redirected to a file or another program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xclip

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

You can also use apt command to install xclip.

sudo apt -y install xclip

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

sudo aptitude install xclip

Summary

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