spell command not found

Introduction

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

spell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spell: command not found

Solutions to spell: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spell is provided by spell package.

spell is:

GNU Spell is a spell checking program which prints each misspelled word on a line of its own. It is designed as a clone of the standard Unix spell' program, and implemented as a wrapper for Ispell. Spell accepts as its arguments a list of files to read from. Within that list, the magical file name -’ causes Spell to read from standard input. In addition, when called with no file name arguments, Spell assumes that it should process standard input.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spell

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

You can also use apt command to install spell.

sudo apt -y install spell

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

sudo aptitude install spell

Summary

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