changetrack command not found

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

Introduction

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

changetrack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: changetrack: command not found

Solutions to changetrack: command not found

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

In Ubuntu changetrack is provided by changetrack package.

changetrack is:

changetrack automatically monitors changes to a set of files. If the files are modified one day and the machine stops working correctly some days later, changetrack will provide information on which files were modified and thus help locate the problem.

If you tell changetrack to use either the line editor ed (the default) or The GNU Revision Control System (RCS), you can recover files to any previous stage. If you do not want to install Perl, try out the filetraq or diffmon package.

changetrack is a filesystem watch, similar to etckeeper.

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

sudo apt-get -y install changetrack

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

You can also use apt command to install changetrack.

sudo apt -y install changetrack

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

sudo aptitude install changetrack

Summary

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