yi command not found

Introduction

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

yi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yi: command not found

Solutions to yi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu yi is provided by yi package.

yi is:

Yi is a text editor written in Haskell and extensible in Haskell. The goal of the Yi project is to provide a flexible, powerful, and correct editor for haskell hacking.

This package comes pre-configured with the default configuration. If you want to build your custom-configured version, make sure that libghc-yi-core-dev is installed and put your configuration in ~/.config/yi/yi.hs

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

sudo apt-get -y install yi

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

You can also use apt command to install yi.

sudo apt -y install yi

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

sudo aptitude install yi

Summary

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