brltty command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix brltty command not found error message

Introduction

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

brltty: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: brltty: command not found

Solutions to brltty: command not found

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

In Ubuntu brltty is provided by brltty package.

brltty is:

BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode) for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille display and provides complete screen review functionality. The following display models are supported:

  • Alva/Optelec (ABT3xx, Delphi, Satellite, Braille System 40, BC 640/680)
  • Baum
  • BrailComm
  • BrailleLite
  • BrailleNote
  • Cebra
  • EcoBraille
  • EuroBraille (AzerBraille, Clio, Esys, Iris, NoteBraille, Scriba)
  • Freedom Scientific (Focus and PacMate)
  • Handy Tech
  • HIMS (Braille Sense, SyncBraille)
  • HumanWare (Brailliant)
  • Iris
  • LogText 32
  • MDV
  • Metec (BD-40)
  • NinePoint
  • Papenmeier
  • Pegasus
  • Seika
  • Tieman (Voyager, CombiBraille, MiniBraille, MultiBraille, BraillePen/EasyLink)
  • Tivomatic (Albatross)
  • TSI (Navigator, PowerBraille)
  • VideoBraille
  • VisioBraille

BRLTTY also provides a client/server based infrastructure for applications wishing to utilize a Braille display. The daemon process listens for incoming TCP/IP connections on a certain port. A shared object library for clients is provided in the package libbrlapi0.8. A static library, header files and documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev. Bindings to other programming languages can be found in cl-brlapi (Lisp), libbrlapi-java (Java) and python3-brlapi (Python).

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

sudo apt-get -y install brltty

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

You can also use apt command to install brltty.

sudo apt -y install brltty

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

sudo aptitude install brltty

Summary

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