ecl command not found

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

Introduction

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

ecl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ecl: command not found

Solutions to ecl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ecl is provided by ecl package.

ecl is:

ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project is an effort to modernize Giuseppe Attardi’s ECL environment to produce an implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language.

The current ECL implementation features:

  • A bytecodes compiler and interpreter.
  • A translator to C.
  • A UFFI-compatible interface to C code.
  • A dynamic loader.
  • The possibility to build standalone executables and DLLs.
  • The Common-Lisp Object System (CLOS).
  • Conditions and restarts for handling errors.
  • Sockets as ordinary streams.
  • The GNU Multiprecision library for fast bignum operations.
  • A simple conservative mark & sweep garbage collector.
  • The Boehm-Weiser garbage collector.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ecl

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

You can also use apt command to install ecl.

sudo apt -y install ecl

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

sudo aptitude install ecl

Summary

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