cfte command not found

Introduction

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

cfte: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cfte: command not found

Solutions to cfte: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cfte is provided by fte package.

fte is:

FTE is a text editor for programmers. Some of its features are smart indentation for C, C++, Java, Perl; color syntax highlighting for many more languages; multiple file/window editing; column blocks; configurable menus and keyboard bindings; mouse support; undo/redo; regular expression search and replace; folding; background compiler execution.

This package contains files necessary to build a configuration file and some elementary documentation. There is no editor here; please select one of the packages in the dependencies.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fte

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

You can also use apt command to install fte.

sudo apt -y install fte

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

sudo aptitude install fte

Summary

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