emacs24-nox: command not found

Have You tried accessing the binary with the full path?

Maybe Your $PATH variable doesn't contain the default paths? echo $PATH should give something like:

[root@server ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

If it's empty, You may set the PATH variable with this command

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin"

On Debian possible default full paths are:

/usr/bin/emacs24-nox - from package: emacs24-nox

You may install the required package with command apt-get install {package}
Error in other languages:
emacs24-nox: bevel nie gevind nie
emacs24-nox: comandă negăsită
emacs24-nox: comando não encontrado
emacs24-nox: commande introuvable
emacs24-nox: command not found
emacs24-nox: käsku ei ole
emacs24-nox: không tìm thấy lệnh
emacs24-nox: komanda nerasta
emacs24-nox: Kommando nicht gefunden.
emacs24-nox: kommandot finns inte
emacs24-nox: komut yok
emacs24-nox: nie znaleziono polecenia
emacs24-nox: níor aimsíodh an t-ordú
emacs24-nox: no se encontró la orden
emacs24-nox: no s'ha trobat l'ordre
emacs24-nox: opdracht niet gevonden
emacs24-nox: parancs nem található
emacs24-nox: perintah tidak ditemukan
emacs24-nox: príkaz nenájdený
emacs24-nox: příkaz nenalezen
emacs24-nox: команда не найдена
emacs24-nox: командата не е открита
emacs24-nox: 命令找不到
emacs24-nox: コマンドが見つかりません