vim.nox command not found

Introduction

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

vim.nox: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vim.nox: command not found

Solutions to vim.nox: command not found

How To Fix vim.nox: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu vim.nox is provided by vim-nox package.

vim-nox is:

Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.

Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, folding, Unicode support, etc.

This package contains a version of vim compiled with support for scripting with Lua, Perl, Python 3, Ruby, and Tcl but no GUI.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vim-nox

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

You can also use apt command to install vim-nox.

sudo apt -y install vim-nox

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

sudo aptitude install vim-nox

Summary

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