talkd command not found

Introduction

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

talkd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: talkd: command not found

Solutions to talkd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu talkd is provided by inetutils-talkd package.

inetutils-talkd is:

The talkd program is a server that notifies a user that someone else wants to initiate a conversation. It acts a repository of invitations, responding to requests by clients wishing to rendezvous to hold a conversation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install inetutils-talkd

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

You can also use apt command to install inetutils-talkd.

sudo apt -y install inetutils-talkd

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

sudo aptitude install inetutils-talkd

Summary

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