sylfilter command not found

Introduction

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

sylfilter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sylfilter: command not found

Solutions to sylfilter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sylfilter is provided by sylfilter package.

sylfilter is:

SylFilter is a generic message filter library and command-line tools. It provides a bayesian filter which is very popular as an algorithm for spam filtering. SylFilter also supports multilingual and can be applied to any languages. It is implemented with C language and runs fast with small resources.

• Very lightweight and fast
• Provides learning-type junk filter
• Easy-to-use command line tool
• Multilingual support (including CJKV)
• Supports several embedded databases (SQLite and QDBM)

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

sudo apt-get -y install sylfilter

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

You can also use apt command to install sylfilter.

sudo apt -y install sylfilter

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

sudo aptitude install sylfilter

Summary

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