clisp-link command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix clisp-link command not found error message

Introduction

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

clisp-link: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clisp-link: command not found

How To Fix clisp-link: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu clisp-link is provided by clisp package.

clisp is:

GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation. It conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard, and offers many extensions. It runs on all desktop operating systems (GNU and Unix systems, macOS, Windows) and is particularly memory-efficient.

It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL, while it is possible to distribute commercial proprietary applications compiled with GNU CLISP.

The user interface comes in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian and Danish, and can be changed during run time.

GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS, MOP, a foreign language interface, a socket interface, i18n, fast bignums, arbitrary precision floats and more. An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO. GNU CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages.

This package contains the main CLISP executable, the link-kit, and the following modules: i18n, regexp, syscalls, readline, ASDF, rawsock, bindings/glibc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clisp

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

You can also use apt command to install clisp.

sudo apt -y install clisp

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

sudo aptitude install clisp

Summary

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