timelimit command not found

Introduction

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

timelimit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: timelimit: command not found

Solutions to timelimit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu timelimit is provided by timelimit package.

timelimit is:

The timelimit utility executes a command and terminates the spawned process after a given time with a given signal. A “warning” signal is sent first, then, after a timeout, a “kill” signal, similar to the way init(8) operates on shutdown.

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

sudo apt-get -y install timelimit

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

You can also use apt command to install timelimit.

sudo apt -y install timelimit

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

sudo aptitude install timelimit

Summary

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