mewest command not found

Introduction

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

mewest: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mewest: command not found

Solutions to mewest: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mewest is provided by mew-bin package.

mew-bin is:

The mew-bin package contains external commands for the mew package.

• mewencode: encode/decode MIME objects
• mewl: extract necessary fields from messages stored in folders
• incm: incorporate new mails from maildir or mbox to Mew’s inbox folder
• mewest: update indexes of Hyper Estraier
• mew-pinentry: front end of gpg-agent to ask a passphrase to a user
• mewstunnel: wrapper script for using stunnel
• cmew: create Mew’s database file
• smew: search related messages from Mew’s database file

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

sudo apt-get -y install mew-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install mew-bin.

sudo apt -y install mew-bin

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

sudo aptitude install mew-bin

Summary

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