mailtextbody command not found

Introduction

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

mailtextbody: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mailtextbody: command not found

Solutions to mailtextbody: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mailtextbody is provided by mailtextbody package.

mailtextbody is:

Mailtextbody reads a complete email message on stdin and returns the body on stdout. Technically speaking, it returns the first decoded text/plain MIME part of any (however nested) MIME message or just the body of a non-MIME message otherwise.

Mailtextbody can easily be included in other tools using pipes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mailtextbody

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

You can also use apt command to install mailtextbody.

sudo apt -y install mailtextbody

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

sudo aptitude install mailtextbody

Summary

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