bones-info command not found

Introduction

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

bones-info: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bones-info: command not found

Solutions to bones-info: command not found

How To Fix bones-info: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bones-info is provided by hearse package.

hearse is:

Nethack sometimes saves the level on which you die (including your stuff, what killed you, and your ghost) in a “bones file”. These files get loaded into later Nethack games. If you’re the only Nethack player on your system you’ll only get bones files you created yourself.

With Hearse, you can automatically exchange bones files with other Nethack players. When run it uploads any new bones files it finds on your system, then downloads any bones files the server feels like giving it. See http://www.argon.org/~roderick/hearse/ for more information.

An important thing to note is that by default using Hearse will cause you to end up with more bones than you otherwise would have. This changes the game’s balance and is considered by many players to be a mild form of cheating. You can address this by turning on the –delete-uploaded option, but the down side is you’ll never encounter your own bones files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hearse

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

You can also use apt command to install hearse.

sudo apt -y install hearse

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

sudo aptitude install hearse

Summary

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