axel command not found

Introduction

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

axel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: axel: command not found

Solutions to axel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu axel is provided by axel package.

axel is:

Axel tries to accelerate the downloading process by using multiple connections for one file, similar to DownThemAll and other famous programs. It can also use multiple mirrors for one download.

Using Axel, you will get files faster from Internet. So, Axel can speed up a download up to 60% (approximately, according to some tests).

Axel supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols.

Axel tries to be as light as possible, so it might be useful as a wget clone (and other console based programs) on byte-critical systems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install axel

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

You can also use apt command to install axel.

sudo apt -y install axel

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

sudo aptitude install axel

Summary

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