cvs-mailcommit command not found

Introduction

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

cvs-mailcommit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cvs-mailcommit: command not found

Solutions to cvs-mailcommit: command not found

How To Fix cvs-mailcommit: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cvs-mailcommit is provided by cvs-mailcommit package.

cvs-mailcommit is:

The cvs-mailcommit program is hooked into the CVS system via the loginfo file and helps people keep track of CVS repositories by distributing changes in a repository via mail. This package is written in Perl.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cvs-mailcommit

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

You can also use apt command to install cvs-mailcommit.

sudo apt -y install cvs-mailcommit

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

sudo aptitude install cvs-mailcommit

Summary

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