zshutdown_notify command not found

Introduction

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

zshutdown_notify: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zshutdown_notify: command not found

Solutions to zshutdown_notify: command not found

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

In Ubuntu zshutdown_notify is provided by zephyr-clients package.

zephyr-clients is:

Zephyr is derived from the original Project Athena ‘Instant Message’ system and allows users to send messages to other users or to groups of users. Users can view incoming Zephyr messages as windowgrams (transient X windows) or as text on a terminal.

This package provides client programs for the messaging service.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zephyr-clients

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

You can also use apt command to install zephyr-clients.

sudo apt -y install zephyr-clients

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

sudo aptitude install zephyr-clients

Summary

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