emacs-gtk command not found

Introduction

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

emacs-gtk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: emacs-gtk: command not found

Solutions to emacs-gtk: command not found

How To Fix emacs-gtk: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu emacs-gtk is provided by emacs-gtk package.

emacs-gtk is:

GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains a version of Emacs with a graphical user interface based on GTK+ (instead of the Lucid toolkit provided by the emacs-lucid package).

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

sudo apt-get -y install emacs-gtk

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

You can also use apt command to install emacs-gtk.

sudo apt -y install emacs-gtk

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

sudo aptitude install emacs-gtk

Summary

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