balsa-ab command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix balsa-ab command not found error message

Introduction

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

balsa-ab: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: balsa-ab: command not found

Solutions to balsa-ab: command not found

How To Fix balsa-ab: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu balsa-ab is provided by balsa package.

balsa is:

Balsa is a highly configurable and robust mail client for the GNOME desktop. It supports both POP3 and IMAP servers as well as the mbox, maildir and mh local mailbox formats. Balsa also supports SMTP and/or the use of a local MTA such as Sendmail.

Some of Balsa’s other features include:

  • Allowing nested mailboxes
  • Printing
  • Spell Checking
  • Multi-threaded mail retrieval
  • MIME support (view images inline, save parts)
  • GPE Palmtop, LDAP, LDIF and vCard address book support
  • Multiple character sets for composing and reading messages
  • File attachments on outgoing messages
  • GPG/OpenPGP mail signing and encryption

Support for Kerberos and SSL has been enabled in this package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install balsa

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

You can also use apt command to install balsa.

sudo apt -y install balsa

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

sudo aptitude install balsa

Summary

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