gnome-text-editor command not found

Introduction

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

gnome-text-editor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnome-text-editor: command not found

Solutions to gnome-text-editor: command not found

How To Fix gnome-text-editor: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnome-text-editor is provided by gnome-text-editor package.

gnome-text-editor is:

GNOME Text Editor is a simple editor for GNOME focused on being a good general purpose default editor.

It works hard to keep track of changes and state even if you quit the application. You can come back to your work even if you’ve never saved it to a file.

It is simpler than gedit.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-text-editor

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

You can also use apt command to install gnome-text-editor.

sudo apt -y install gnome-text-editor

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

sudo aptitude install gnome-text-editor

Summary

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