sinntp command not found

Introduction

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

sinntp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sinntp: command not found

Solutions to sinntp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sinntp is provided by sinntp package.

sinntp is:

sinntp is a tiny NNTP client originally designed to work in non-interactive mode. Following commands are supported:

• nntp-push: sending articles to the server,
• nntp-pull: fetching new articles to the mbox file,
• nntp-list: listing available newsgroups,
• nntp-get: downloading individual messages in RFC822 format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sinntp

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

You can also use apt command to install sinntp.

sudo apt -y install sinntp

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

sudo aptitude install sinntp

Summary

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