exa command not found

Introduction

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

exa: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: exa: command not found

Solutions to exa: command not found

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

In Ubuntu exa is provided by exa package.

exa is:

exa is an improved file lister with more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.

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

sudo apt-get -y install exa

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

You can also use apt command to install exa.

sudo apt -y install exa

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

sudo aptitude install exa

Summary

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