w3mman command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix w3mman command not found error message

Introduction

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

w3mman: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: w3mman: command not found

Solutions to w3mman: command not found

How To Fix w3mman: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu w3mman is provided by w3m package.

w3m is:

w3m is a text-based World Wide Web browser with IPv6 support. It features excellent support for tables and frames. It can be used as a standalone file pager, too.

  • You can follow links and/or view images in HTML.
  • Internet message preview mode, you can browse HTML mail.
  • You can follow links in plain text if it includes URL forms.
  • With w3m-img, you can view inline images.

This package provides Debian’s w3m, forked from the original version https://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m/.

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

sudo apt-get -y install w3m

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

You can also use apt command to install w3m.

sudo apt -y install w3m

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

sudo aptitude install w3m

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix w3mman command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.