jed command not found

Introduction

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

jed: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jed: command not found

Solutions to jed: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jed is provided by jed package.

jed is:

Jed is a small, fast and powerful text editor, yet starts faster than bash.

Completely customizable with prepared emulation modes for Emacs, CUA (similar to KDE/Gnome/OpenOffice), Borland-IDE, Brief, and EDT. Extensible in the S-Lang scripting language (with a syntax resembling C).

Editing functions: folding support, rectangular cut/paste, regular expression search/replace, incremental searches, search/replace across multiple files, multiple windows, multiple buffers, …

Tools: directory editor (dired), info (browse GNU info files), mail, rmail, ispell, shell mode, …

Special modes (syntax highlight, indention, compile, …) for Basic, C, C++, DCL, FORTRAN, IDL, Java, nroff, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, sh. Modes for markup languages include HTML and (La)TeX (with AUC-TeX style editing and BibTeX)

Additional tools and modes can be found in the jed-extra package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jed

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

You can also use apt command to install jed.

sudo apt -y install jed

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

sudo aptitude install jed

Summary

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