finger command not found

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

Introduction

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

finger: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: finger: command not found

In Ubuntu finger is provided by finger package.

finger is:

finger displays information about the system users.

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

sudo apt-get -y install finger

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

You can also use apt command to install finger.

sudo apt -y install finger

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

sudo aptitude install finger

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