basictopvf command not found

Introduction

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

basictopvf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: basictopvf: command not found

Solutions to basictopvf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu basictopvf is provided by mgetty-pvftools package.

mgetty-pvftools is:

This package contains different utilities from the vgetty package which permit to create, listen and manipulate rmd or pvf files. These files are the recorded “message files” for using a voice modem as an answering machine.

You will want to install this package to create your greeting messages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mgetty-pvftools

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

You can also use apt command to install mgetty-pvftools.

sudo apt -y install mgetty-pvftools

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

sudo aptitude install mgetty-pvftools

Summary

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