scheme-elk command not found

Introduction

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

scheme-elk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scheme-elk: command not found

Solutions to scheme-elk: command not found

How To Fix scheme-elk: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu scheme-elk is provided by elk package.

elk is:

Elk is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, designed specifically as an embeddable, reusable extension language subsystem for applications written in C or C++.

This package contains the Elk Scheme interpreter, as well as several plugins shipped with Elk. They provide hooks for Unix system calls, the X Window System, as well as the X Athena Widgets and the Motif toolkits. Example scripts on how to use these plugins are provided in the elkdoc package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elk

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

You can also use apt command to install elk.

sudo apt -y install elk

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

sudo aptitude install elk

Summary

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