asciiart command not found

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

Introduction

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

asciiart: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: asciiart: command not found

Solutions to asciiart: command not found

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

In Ubuntu asciiart is provided by asciiart package.

asciiart is:

This gem provides a command line utility to turn images into ASCII art. It can be used as an executable which may be called from the terminal as well as a library so that it can be used in other programs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install asciiart

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

You can also use apt command to install asciiart.

sudo apt -y install asciiart

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

sudo aptitude install asciiart

Summary

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