bcron-spool command not found

Introduction

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

bcron-spool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bcron-spool: command not found

Solutions to bcron-spool: command not found

How To Fix bcron-spool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bcron-spool is provided by bcron package.

bcron is:

Bruce cron system is designed with secure operations in mind. To do this, the system is divided into several separate programs, each responsible for a separate task, with strictly controlled communications between them.

The user interface is a drop-in replacement for similar systems, such as vixie-cron, but the internals differ greatly.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bcron

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

You can also use apt command to install bcron.

sudo apt -y install bcron

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

sudo aptitude install bcron

Summary

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