birthday command not found

Introduction

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

birthday: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: birthday: command not found

Solutions to birthday: command not found

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

In Ubuntu birthday is provided by birthday package.

birthday is:

Given a list of the dates of various different events, works out and displays a list of those which will come up in the next couple of weeks. This was originally designed for birthdays, but can equally be used for reminders about yearly events, or for a running diary.

Note that if you want to use vcf2birthday script you will need perl.

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

sudo apt-get -y install birthday

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

You can also use apt command to install birthday.

sudo apt -y install birthday

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

sudo aptitude install birthday

Summary

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