emot command not found

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

Introduction

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

emot: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: emot: command not found

In Ubuntu emot is provided by ruby-emot package.

ruby-emot is:

Yet another emoji handler for Ruby. It contains 870 emojis with its name and codepoint, but not contains emoji fonts or images.

All names of emojis are from “Emoji cheat sheet for Campfire and GitHub”

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-emot

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-emot.

sudo apt -y install ruby-emot

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-emot

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