evolution command not found

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

Introduction

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

evolution: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: evolution: command not found

Solutions to evolution: command not found

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

In Ubuntu evolution is provided by evolution package.

evolution is:

Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools.

Additional features include integration with Exchange servers, newsgroup client, LDAP support and web calendars

The following plugins belonging to the “base” set are included.

  • calendar-file
  • calendar-http
  • itip-formatter
  • default-source
  • addressbook-file
  • mark-all-read
  • publish-calendar
  • caldav
  • imap-features
  • google-account-setup
  • webdav-account-setup
  • calendar-weather
  • sa-junk-plugin
  • bogo-junk-plugin

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

sudo apt-get -y install evolution

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

You can also use apt command to install evolution.

sudo apt -y install evolution

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

sudo aptitude install evolution

Summary

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