prolix command not found

Introduction

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

prolix: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prolix: command not found

Solutions to prolix: command not found

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

In Ubuntu prolix is provided by prolix package.

prolix is:

prolix launches a command and captures its standard output and error, suppressing uninteresting lines according to a pattern. Yet unlike grep -v, prolix is an interactive program: When you find that the output you’re being shown is still too verbose, simply hit enter and add additional suppression patterns. Suppression patterns can be full or substring line matches as well as regular expressions. You can also apply substitutions to lines, for example shorten overly chatty fields.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prolix

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

You can also use apt command to install prolix.

sudo apt -y install prolix

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

sudo aptitude install prolix

Summary

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