editclient command not found

Introduction

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

editclient: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: editclient: command not found

Solutions to editclient: command not found

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

In Ubuntu editclient is provided by xemacs21-support package.

xemacs21-support is:

XEmacs is a full fledged programming language with a mail reader, news reader, info browser, web browser, calendar, specialized editor for more programming languages and other formats than most people encounter in a lifetime, and much more.

Support and architecture independent files for XEmacs 21.4.22. This includes the files found in etc and all required elisp library files (mostly compiled (.elc files), but a few uncompiled (.el files)).

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

sudo apt-get -y install xemacs21-support

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

You can also use apt command to install xemacs21-support.

sudo apt -y install xemacs21-support

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

sudo aptitude install xemacs21-support

Summary

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