alevt-date command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix alevt-date command not found error message

Introduction

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

alevt-date: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: alevt-date: command not found

Solutions to alevt-date: command not found

How To Fix alevt-date: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu alevt-date is provided by alevt package.

alevt is:

AleVT is an X11 program for browsing and searching Teletext/Videotext pages received by a compatible decoder (bttv and DVB receivers).

Features include:

  • Multiple windows
  • Page cache
  • Regular expression searching
  • Built-in manual

Additional command line utilities can

  • receive the time from Teletext/Videotext
  • capture pages and write them to disk

Teletext/Videotext is used by TV channels to transmit textual information pages (it’s transmitted via non-visible scan lines).

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

sudo apt-get -y install alevt

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

You can also use apt command to install alevt.

sudo apt -y install alevt

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

sudo aptitude install alevt

Summary

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