profanity command not found

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

Introduction

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

profanity: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: profanity: command not found

Solutions to profanity: command not found

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

In Ubuntu profanity is provided by profanity package.

profanity is:

Profanity is a console based instant messaging client for XMPP (Jabber) protocol based chat. It is inspired by popular IRC client IRSSI.

Profanity’s features are:

  • Supports XMPP chat services
  • MUC chat room support
  • PGP, OMEMO, and OTR encryption
  • Roster management
  • Flexible resource and priority settings
  • Desktop notifications
  • Plugins in Python and C
  • Support for colorthemes

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

sudo apt-get -y install profanity

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

You can also use apt command to install profanity.

sudo apt -y install profanity

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

sudo aptitude install profanity

Summary

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