gopher command not found

Introduction

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

gopher: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gopher: command not found

Solutions to gopher: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gopher is provided by gopher package.

gopher is:

This package contains the client for the distributed global directory and hypertext system known as gopher. This is a text-based (ncurses) client from the University of Minnesota. It also supports the gopher+ protocol, as well as links to ftp, http, and other external viewers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gopher

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

You can also use apt command to install gopher.

sudo apt -y install gopher

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

sudo aptitude install gopher

Summary

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