topline command not found

Introduction

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

topline: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: topline: command not found

Solutions to topline: command not found

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

In Ubuntu topline is provided by topline package.

topline is:

This is a top-of-the-line logger of CPU usage patterns, designed for machines with ca. 50-300 total hardware threads (fewer works but results in a narrow graph, more requires a very wide terminal). Every per-tick sample is shown abusing Unicode characters to fit within a single line.

Disk usage is also shown in a similarly terse per-device way, as % utilization for reads and writes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install topline

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

You can also use apt command to install topline.

sudo apt -y install topline

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

sudo aptitude install topline

Summary

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