root-tail command not found

Introduction

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

root-tail: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: root-tail: command not found

Solutions to root-tail: command not found

How To Fix root-tail: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu root-tail is provided by root-tail package.

root-tail is:

Root-tail is a program that displays and follows the most recent contents of one or more log fileslike “tail -f” but on the X root window, through the use of transparent windows.

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

sudo apt-get -y install root-tail

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

You can also use apt command to install root-tail.

sudo apt -y install root-tail

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

sudo aptitude install root-tail

Summary

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