clips command not found

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

Introduction

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

clips: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clips: command not found

Solutions to clips: command not found

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

In Ubuntu clips is provided by clips package.

clips is:

CLIPS is an OPS-like forward chaining production system written in ANSI C by NASA. The CLIPS inference engine includes truth maintenance, dynamic rule addition, and customizable conflict resolution strategies.

CLIPS, including the runtime version, is easily embeddable in other applications. CLIPS includes an object-oriented language called COOL (CLIPS Object-Oriented Language) which is directly integrated with the inference engine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clips

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

You can also use apt command to install clips.

sudo apt -y install clips

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

sudo aptitude install clips

Summary

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