bless command not found

Introduction

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

bless: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bless: command not found

Solutions to bless: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bless is provided by bless package.

bless is:

Bless is a binary (hex) editor, a program that enables you to edit files as a sequence of bytes written for the GNOME Desktop. Main features are:

• Efficient editing of large data files.
• Multilevel undo - redo operations.
• Customizable data views.
• Fast data rendering on screen.
• Multiple Tabs.
• Fast Find and Replace operations.
• Conversion Table.
• Advanced Copy/Paste capabilities.
• Multi-threaded search and save operations.
• Export to text and html (others with plugins).
• Extensibility with Plugins.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bless

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

You can also use apt command to install bless.

sudo apt -y install bless

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

sudo aptitude install bless

Summary

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