acpitail command not found

Introduction

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

acpitail: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: acpitail: command not found

Solutions to acpitail: command not found

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

In Ubuntu acpitail is provided by acpitail package.

acpitail is:

acpitail shows ACPI status information about battery, fan and temperature in a tail-like way. As soon as a value changes, the new value gets appended to the current output.

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

sudo apt-get -y install acpitail

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

You can also use apt command to install acpitail.

sudo apt -y install acpitail

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

sudo aptitude install acpitail

Summary

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