notmuch-emacs-mua command not found

Introduction

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

notmuch-emacs-mua: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: notmuch-emacs-mua: command not found

Solutions to notmuch-emacs-mua: command not found

How To Fix notmuch-emacs-mua: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu notmuch-emacs-mua is provided by notmuch package.

notmuch is:

Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a very convenient search syntax.

This package contains the notmuch command-line interface

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

sudo apt-get -y install notmuch

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

You can also use apt command to install notmuch.

sudo apt -y install notmuch

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

sudo aptitude install notmuch

Summary

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