ruptime command not found

Introduction

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

ruptime: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ruptime: command not found

Solutions to ruptime: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ruptime is provided by rwho package.

rwho is:

The rwho command produces output similar to who, but for all machines on the local network. If no report has been received from a machine for 11 minutes then rwho assumes the machine is down, and does not report users last known to be logged into that machine.

The ruptime command gives a status line like uptime for each machine on the local network; these are formed from packets broadcast by each host on the network once a minute.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rwho

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

You can also use apt command to install rwho.

sudo apt -y install rwho

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

sudo aptitude install rwho

Summary

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