mvs command not found

Introduction

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

mvs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mvs: command not found

Solutions to mvs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mvs is provided by libwww-mediawiki-client-perl package.

libwww-mediawiki-client-perl is:

This package includes the MVS client and the WWW::Mediawiki::Client perl library implementing the functionality in MVS. WWW::Mediawiki::Client provides a very simple CVS-like interface for viewing, staying in sync with, and editing pages in websites that run Mediawiki software. In particular, the software is extremely useful for editing pages in Wikipedia or other Wikimedia websites.

MVS is a command line client whose purpose is to simplify offline editing of Wiki content. It allows you to get any number of pages from a given Mediawiki site, edit the pages with any editor, get and merge any concurrent updates of the pages, and then safely commit the users own changes back to the version of the page on the server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl.

sudo apt -y install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libwww-mediawiki-client-perl

Summary

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