run_erl command not found

Introduction

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

run_erl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: run_erl: command not found

Solutions to run_erl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu run_erl is provided by erlang-base package.

erlang-base is:

This package contains the Erlang/OTP runtime implementation, and minimal set of Erlang applications: compiler - compiles Erlang code to byte-code; erts - the Erlang runtime system application; kernel - code necessary to run the Erlang runtime system itself; ose - code for Enea OSE operating system; sasl - the system architecture support libraries application; stdlib - modules for manipulating lists, strings, files etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install erlang-base

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

You can also use apt command to install erlang-base.

sudo apt -y install erlang-base

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

sudo aptitude install erlang-base

Summary

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