re command not found

Introduction

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

re: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: re: command not found

Solutions to re: command not found

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

In Ubuntu re is provided by re package.

re is:

Russian Anywhere is a Russian character decoding program. It allows one to transfer Russian characters between different codepages. Main purpose is to convert damaged Russian e-mail messages to readable form and it also may be used to convert files from/to known and unknown codepages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install re

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

You can also use apt command to install re.

sudo apt -y install re

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

sudo aptitude install re

Summary

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