explain command not found

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

Introduction

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

explain: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: explain: command not found

In Ubuntu explain is provided by explain package.

explain is:

This package provides an explain(1) command to explain Unix and Linux system call errors, after the fact.

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

sudo apt-get -y install explain

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

You can also use apt command to install explain.

sudo apt -y install explain

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

sudo aptitude install explain

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