pwait command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
pwait: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: pwait: command not found
Solutions to pwait: command not found
How To Fix pwait: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu pwait is provided by extrace package.
extrace is:
extrace traces all program executions happening on a system, or the subset of program executions done by a given process and its descendants. For example, to see what the shell really executes:
$ sudo extrace -p $(pidof zsh)
8505 git rev-parse –is-inside-work-tree
8506 direnv export zsh
8511 git rev-parse –is-inside-work-tree
8515 wc -l
8516 whoami
8542 hostname
8543 git rev-parse –is-inside-work-tree
8544 direnv export zsh
8549 /bin/bash –noprofile –norc -c ’eval “$("/usr/bin/direnv” stdlib)" >&2
&& source_env “.envrc” >&2 && “/usr/bin/direnv” dump'
8551 /usr/bin/direnv stdlib
8558 /usr/bin/direnv watch .envrc
8565 dirname .envrc
8567 basename .envrc
8569 basename .envrc
8549 /usr/bin/direnv dump
8574 git rev-parse –is-inside-work-tree
8578 wc -l
8579 whoami
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install extrace
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install extrace.
sudo apt -y install extrace
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install extrace
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix pwait command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.