xdeview command not found

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

Introduction

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

xdeview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xdeview: command not found

In Ubuntu xdeview is provided by xdeview package.

xdeview is:

This is an X11-based decoder for files encoded with the following formats: uuencode, xxencode, BASE64, yEncoding, quoted printable, and BinHex.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xdeview

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

You can also use apt command to install xdeview.

sudo apt -y install xdeview

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

sudo aptitude install xdeview

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