eperl command not found

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

Introduction

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

eperl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eperl: command not found

Solutions to eperl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu eperl is provided by eperl package.

eperl is:

ePerl interprets an ASCII file bristled with Perl 5 program statements by evaluating the Perl 5 code while passing through the plain ASCII data. It can operate in various ways: As a stand-alone Unix filter or integrated Perl 5 module for general file generation tasks and as a powerful Webserver scripting language for dynamic HTML page programming.

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

sudo apt-get -y install eperl

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

You can also use apt command to install eperl.

sudo apt -y install eperl

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

sudo aptitude install eperl

Summary

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