clipfilter command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix clipfilter command not found error message

Introduction

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

clipfilter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clipfilter: command not found

In Ubuntu clipfilter is provided by libclipboard-perl package.

libclipboard-perl is:

Clipboard is a module for accessing the X clipboard. It provides a copy() and a paste() function, and uses xclip(1) under the hood.

Additionally the package includes a couple of scripts for working with the clipboard:

clipaccumulate clipbrowse clipedit clipfilter clipjoin

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

sudo apt-get -y install libclipboard-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libclipboard-perl.

sudo apt -y install libclipboard-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libclipboard-perl

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