pidcat command not found

Introduction

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

pidcat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pidcat: command not found

Solutions to pidcat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pidcat is provided by pidcat package.

pidcat is:

An update to Jeff Sharkey’s excellent logcat color script which only shows log entries for processes from a specific application package.

During application development you often want to only display log messages coming from your app. Unfortunately, because the process ID changes every time you deploy to the phone it becomes a challenge to grep for the right thing.

This script solves that problem by filtering by application package. Supply the target package as the sole argument to the Python script and enjoy a more convenient development process.

pidcat com.oprah.bees.android

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

sudo apt-get -y install pidcat

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

You can also use apt command to install pidcat.

sudo apt -y install pidcat

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

sudo aptitude install pidcat

Summary

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