matcherrc2perlfilter command not found

Introduction

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

matcherrc2perlfilter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: matcherrc2perlfilter: command not found

Solutions to matcherrc2perlfilter: command not found

How To Fix matcherrc2perlfilter: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu matcherrc2perlfilter is provided by claws-mail-perl-filter package.

claws-mail-perl-filter is:

This plugin enables filtering of Claws Mail messages using perl regular expressions and, in fact, giving all the perl features and power to the filtering engine.

A tool for converting the current filter set of the user into a equivalent perl script suitable for the plugin is also provided.

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

sudo apt-get -y install claws-mail-perl-filter

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

You can also use apt command to install claws-mail-perl-filter.

sudo apt -y install claws-mail-perl-filter

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

sudo aptitude install claws-mail-perl-filter

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix matcherrc2perlfilter command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.