console command not found

Introduction

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

console: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: console: command not found

Solutions to console: command not found

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

In Ubuntu console is provided by conserver-client package.

conserver-client is:

Conserver is an application that allows multiple users to watch a serial console at the same time. It can log the data, allows users to take write-access of a console (one at a time), and has a variety of bells and whistles to accentuate that basic functionality. The idea is that conserver will log all your serial traffic so you can go back and review why something crashed, look at changes (if done on the console), or tie the console logs into a monitoring system (just watch the logfiles it creates). With multi-user capabilities you can work on equipment with others, mentor, train, etc. It also does all that client-server stuff so that, assuming you have a network connection, you can interact with any of the equipment from home or wherever.

This is client part of the conserver system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install conserver-client

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

You can also use apt command to install conserver-client.

sudo apt -y install conserver-client

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

sudo aptitude install conserver-client

Summary

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