xsel command not found

Introduction

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

xsel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xsel: command not found

Solutions to xsel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xsel is provided by xsel package.

xsel is:

XSel is a command-line program for getting and setting the contents of the X selection. It can also append and have it follow a growing file (similar to tail -f).

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

sudo apt-get -y install xsel

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

You can also use apt command to install xsel.

sudo apt -y install xsel

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

sudo aptitude install xsel

Summary

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