feed2exec command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix feed2exec command not found error message

Introduction

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

feed2exec: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: feed2exec: command not found

Solutions to feed2exec: command not found

How To Fix feed2exec: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu feed2exec is provided by feed2exec package.

feed2exec is:

feed2exec is a simple program that runs custom actions on new RSS feed items (or whatever feedparser can read). It currently has support for writing into mailboxes (Maildir or mbox folders) or executing commands, but more actions can be easily implemented through plugins. Email are saved as multipart plain/HTML and can be sent to arbitrary folders.

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

sudo apt-get -y install feed2exec

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

You can also use apt command to install feed2exec.

sudo apt -y install feed2exec

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

sudo aptitude install feed2exec

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix feed2exec command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.