and command not found

Introduction

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

and: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: and: command not found

Solutions to and: command not found

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

In Ubuntu and is provided by and package.

and is:

The auto nice daemon activates itself in certain intervals and renices jobs according to their priority and CPU usage. Jobs owned by root are left alone. Jobs are never increased in their priority.

The renice intervals can be adjusted as well as the default nice level and the activation intervals. A priority database stores user/group/job tuples along with their renice values for three CPU usage time ranges. Negative nice levels are interpreted as signals to be sent to a process, triggered by CPU usage; this way, Netscapes going berserk can be killed automatically. The strategy for searching the priority database can be configured.

AND also provides network-wide configuration files with host-specific sections, as well as wildcard/regexp support for commands in the priority database.

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

sudo apt-get -y install and

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

You can also use apt command to install and.

sudo apt -y install and

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

sudo aptitude install and

Summary

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