mon command not found

Introduction

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

mon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mon: command not found

Solutions to mon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mon is provided by mon package.

mon is:

“mon” is a tool for monitoring the availability of services. Services may be network-related, environmental conditions, or anything that can be tested with software. If a service is unavailable mon can tell you with syslog, email, your pager or a script of your choice. You can control who gets each alert based on the time of day or day of week, and you can control how often an existing problem is re-alerted.

More information can be found at http://mon.wiki.kernel.org

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

sudo apt-get -y install mon

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

You can also use apt command to install mon.

sudo apt -y install mon

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

sudo aptitude install mon

Summary

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