bwm-ng command not found

Introduction

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

bwm-ng: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bwm-ng: command not found

Solutions to bwm-ng: command not found

How To Fix bwm-ng: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bwm-ng is provided by bwm-ng package.

bwm-ng is:

Bandwidth Monitor NG is a small and simple console-based live bandwidth monitor.

Short list of features:

• supports /proc/net/dev, netstat, getifaddr, sysctl, kstat and libstatgrab
• unlimited number of interfaces supported
• interfaces are added or removed dynamically from list
• white-/blacklist of interfaces
• output of KB/s, Kb/s, packets, errors, average, max and total sum
• output in curses, plain console, CSV or HTML
• configfile

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

sudo apt-get -y install bwm-ng

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

You can also use apt command to install bwm-ng.

sudo apt -y install bwm-ng

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

sudo aptitude install bwm-ng

Summary

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