mboxgrep command not found

Introduction

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

mboxgrep: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mboxgrep: command not found

Solutions to mboxgrep: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mboxgrep is provided by mboxgrep package.

mboxgrep is:

mboxgrep is a small utility that scans either standard Unix mailboxes, Gnus nnml or nnmh mailboxes, MH mailboxes or Maildirs, and displays messages matching a basic, extended, or Perl-compatible regular expression.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mboxgrep

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

You can also use apt command to install mboxgrep.

sudo apt -y install mboxgrep

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

sudo aptitude install mboxgrep

Summary

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