archmbox command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix archmbox command not found error message

Introduction

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

archmbox: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: archmbox: command not found

Solutions to archmbox: command not found

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

In Ubuntu archmbox is provided by archmbox package.

archmbox is:

Archmbox is a simple email archiver written in perl; it parses one or more mailboxes, selects some or all messages and then performs specific actions on the selected messages. At this time archmbox supports mbox and mbx mailbox formats.

Messages selection is based upon a date criteria; an absolute date or a days offset can be specified. It is also possible to refine the selection using regular expressions on the header fields of the message. All archived messages are stored in a new mailbox with the same name of the original one plus .archived as extension (this is the default, but can be changed); the archive mailbox can be saved in gz or bz2 compressed format as well.

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

sudo apt-get -y install archmbox

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

You can also use apt command to install archmbox.

sudo apt -y install archmbox

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

sudo aptitude install archmbox

Summary

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