xowish command not found

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

Introduction

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

xowish: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xowish: command not found

In Ubuntu xowish is provided by nsf-shells package.

nsf-shells is:

This package provides you with scripted shell wrappers for the two NSF-builtin Tcl extensions: NX (nxsh, nxwish) and XOTcl2 (xotclsh, xowish).

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

sudo apt-get -y install nsf-shells

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

You can also use apt command to install nsf-shells.

sudo apt -y install nsf-shells

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

sudo aptitude install nsf-shells

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