[Xastir] CVS question

[John Kraus]

I am working on getting CVS running

The platform is MEPIS Linux.

The network is working.

I have followed the instructions in cvs: xastir/xastir/readme.cvs

I created a .cvsrc file in my home directory /home/kc4zgq

in it are the commands

##cvs -z3
update -P -d
status -v
diff -u

I opened a Konsole terminal window and entered:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir login

I get:

bash: cvs: command not found

Suggestions?

I have tried to follow the instructions at Sourceforge for CVS but they are 
not very clear.