logtop command not found

Introduction

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

logtop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: logtop: command not found

Solutions to logtop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu logtop is provided by logtop package.

logtop is:

logtop is a System Administrator tool to analyze line rate taking log file as input. It reads on stdin and print a constantly updated result using curses, displaying in columns: Line number, count, frequency, and the actual line.

$ tail -f FILE | logtop is the friendly version of: $ watch ’tail FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr'

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

sudo apt-get -y install logtop

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

You can also use apt command to install logtop.

sudo apt -y install logtop

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

sudo aptitude install logtop

Summary

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