transmission-edit command not found

Introduction

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

transmission-edit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: transmission-edit: command not found

Solutions to transmission-edit: command not found

How To Fix transmission-edit: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu transmission-edit is provided by transmission-cli package.

transmission-cli is:

Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). All its incarnations feature a very simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.

This package contains a (deprecated) stand-alone command-line client, transmission-remote to interface with transmission-daemon and tools to create, edit and inspect torrent files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install transmission-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install transmission-cli.

sudo apt -y install transmission-cli

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

sudo aptitude install transmission-cli

Summary

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