pygtail command not found

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

Introduction

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

pygtail: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pygtail: command not found

In Ubuntu pygtail is provided by pygtail package.

pygtail is:

pygtail is a tool for reading log files, and is capable of handling log files which are rotated.

This has similar functionality to the logtail2 tool (which can be found in the logtail package).

This package contains the command line tool, pygtail. See the python3-pygtail package for the library that this tool uses.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pygtail

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

You can also use apt command to install pygtail.

sudo apt -y install pygtail

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

sudo aptitude install pygtail

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