boxes command not found

Introduction

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

boxes: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: boxes: command not found

Solutions to boxes: command not found

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

In Ubuntu boxes is provided by boxes package.

boxes is:

Boxes is extremely configurable filter for adding and removing ASCII art (comments, for example) around chunks of text. Most modern text editors support filtering text through external filters. Boxes is such a filter.

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

sudo apt-get -y install boxes

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

You can also use apt command to install boxes.

sudo apt -y install boxes

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

sudo aptitude install boxes

Summary

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