utfout command not found

Introduction

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

utfout: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: utfout: command not found

Solutions to utfout: command not found

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

In Ubuntu utfout is provided by utfout package.

utfout is:

This package contains a command-line tool that can produce UTF-8 (Unicode) strings in various ways and direct them to standard output, standard error or direct to the terminal without the need for shell support. Strings can be repeated, delayed, randomly-generated, written to arbitrary file descriptors, interspersed with other characters and generated using ranges. Printf(1)-style escape sequences are supported along with extended escape sequences. utfout(1) Sits somewhere between echo(1) and printf(1).

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

sudo apt-get -y install utfout

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

You can also use apt command to install utfout.

sudo apt -y install utfout

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

sudo aptitude install utfout

Summary

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