xstow command not found

Introduction

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

xstow: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xstow: command not found

Solutions to xstow: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xstow is provided by xstow package.

xstow is:

XStow (like GNU Stow) is a program for managing the installation of software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while making them appear to be installed in the same place (/usr/local).

The extended features include: creation of symlinks with absolute path names, traversal link support (create a link from /usr/share/man to /usr/man), multiple stow directories support, shell pattern matching, regular expressions support, and global settings via configuration files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xstow

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

You can also use apt command to install xstow.

sudo apt -y install xstow

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

sudo aptitude install xstow

Summary

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