eggsh command not found

Introduction

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

eggsh: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eggsh: command not found

Solutions to eggsh: command not found

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

In Ubuntu eggsh is provided by gcpegg package.

gcpegg is:

The GCP studies data from random event generators in widely distributed locations, to discern non-random patterns that may result from the interaction of human consciousness with the generators.

This package provides the software required to operate a random event generator and return data to the project. Unless you are registered with the GCP and have received event generator hardware, this package will be useless to you. If you have no idea what this means, don’t bother installing this package!

More GCP information is available at http://global-mind.org

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

sudo apt-get -y install gcpegg

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

You can also use apt command to install gcpegg.

sudo apt -y install gcpegg

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

sudo aptitude install gcpegg

Summary

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