epiphany command not found

Introduction

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

epiphany: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: epiphany: command not found

Solutions to epiphany: command not found

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

In Ubuntu epiphany is provided by epiphany-browser package.

epiphany-browser is:

Epiphany is a simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-technical users. Its principles are simplicity and standards compliance.

Simplicity is achieved by a well designed user interface and reliance on external applications for performing external tasks (such as reading email). Simplicity does not mean less features; Epiphany has everything a modern web browser is expected to have.

Standards compliance is achieved on the HTML side by using the WebKitGTK+ rendering engine (which is based on the engine used by Apple Safari and Google Chrome); and on the user interface side by closely following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and by close integration with the GNOME desktop.

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

sudo apt-get -y install epiphany-browser

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

You can also use apt command to install epiphany-browser.

sudo apt -y install epiphany-browser

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

sudo aptitude install epiphany-browser

Summary

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