prompt command not found

Introduction

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

prompt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prompt: command not found

Solutions to prompt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu prompt is provided by libmodglue1v5 package.

libmodglue1v5 is:

Modglue is a C++ library with classes for forking external processes and asynchronous reading from streams. It takes away the burden of all subtleties involving the Unix fork call. The asynchronous read facility enables one to read on multiple input streams at the same time, without losing any of the standard C++ stream facilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmodglue1v5

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

You can also use apt command to install libmodglue1v5.

sudo apt -y install libmodglue1v5

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

sudo aptitude install libmodglue1v5

Summary

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