r2e command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix r2e command not found error message

Introduction

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

r2e: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: r2e: command not found

Solutions to r2e: command not found

How To Fix r2e: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu r2e is provided by rss2email package.

rss2email is:

rss2email is a simple program which you can run in your crontab. It watches RSS (or Atom) feeds and sends you a nicely formatted email message for each new item.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rss2email

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

You can also use apt command to install rss2email.

sudo apt -y install rss2email

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

sudo aptitude install rss2email

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix r2e command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.