xe command not found

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

Introduction

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

xe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xe: command not found

In Ubuntu xe is provided by xe package.

xe is:

xe is a tool for constructing command lines from file listings or arguments, which includes the best features of xargs(1) and apply(1).

Its name means “execute for every …”.

It provides simple(r) parsing of its input, does not invoke a shell by default, can execute multiple commands in parallel, …

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

sudo apt-get -y install xe

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

You can also use apt command to install xe.

sudo apt -y install xe

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

sudo aptitude install xe

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