sopel command not found

Introduction

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

sopel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sopel: command not found

Solutions to sopel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sopel is provided by sopel package.

sopel is:

Sopel is a simple, lightweight, open source, easy-to-use IRC utility bot, written in Python. It’s designed to be easy to use, easy to run, and easy to make new features for.

Sopel comes with a ton of ready-made features for you to use. It can leave notes for people, give you reminders, check RSS feeds, and much more.

Sopel also comes with a fully-documented and easy-to-use API, so you can write your own features. There’s also an easy tutorial you can follow along with, to help you learn.

Developing for Sopel is a great way to familiarize yourself with Python. It’s easy to start, but there’s no limit to the cool things you can do with it.

Sopel was also known as Willie, Phenny or Jenni in previous incarnations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sopel

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

You can also use apt command to install sopel.

sudo apt -y install sopel

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

sudo aptitude install sopel

Summary

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