tilde command not found

Introduction

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

tilde: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tilde: command not found

Solutions to tilde: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tilde is provided by tilde package.

tilde is:

Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. For example, the short-cut to copy the current selection is Control-C, and to paste the previously copied text the short-cut Control-V can be used. As another example, the File menu can be accessed by pressing Meta-F.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tilde

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

You can also use apt command to install tilde.

sudo apt -y install tilde

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

sudo aptitude install tilde

Summary

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