pil command not found

Introduction

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

pil: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pil: command not found

Solutions to pil: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pil is provided by picolisp package.

picolisp is:

Pico Lisp can be viewed from two different aspects: As a general purpose programming language, and a dedicated application server framework.

As a programming language, Pico Lisp provides a 1-to-1 mapping of a clean and powerful Lisp derivate, to a simple and efficient virtual machine. It supports persistent objects as a first class data type, resulting in a database system of Entity/Relation classes and a Prolog-like query language tightly integrated into the system.

As an application server framework, Pico Lisp provides for database management (including multi-user synchronization, DB garbage collection journalling and replication), web interface integrated (and generated from) the application data model, and an application server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install picolisp

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

You can also use apt command to install picolisp.

sudo apt -y install picolisp

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

sudo aptitude install picolisp

Summary

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