twinkle-console command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix twinkle-console command not found error message

Introduction

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

twinkle-console: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: twinkle-console: command not found

Solutions to twinkle-console: command not found

How To Fix twinkle-console: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu twinkle-console is provided by twinkle-console package.

twinkle-console is:

Twinkle is a soft-phone for making telephone calls over an IP network using the SIP protocol. You can use it for direct IP phone to IP phone communication or in a network using a SIP proxy to route your calls. Notable features include multiple active identities, call transfer, call rejection, 2 simultaneous calls and 3-way conference calls.

This package contains the console interface. Note that the console interface provides a reduced set of features; in particular, the graphical interface is needed to create the configuration files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install twinkle-console

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

You can also use apt command to install twinkle-console.

sudo apt -y install twinkle-console

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

sudo aptitude install twinkle-console

Summary

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