captoinfo command not found

Introduction

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

captoinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: captoinfo: command not found

Solutions to captoinfo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu captoinfo is provided by ncurses-bin package.

ncurses-bin is:

The ncurses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization.

This package contains the programs used for manipulating the terminfo database and individual terminfo entries, as well as some programs for resetting terminals and such.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ncurses-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install ncurses-bin.

sudo apt -y install ncurses-bin

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

sudo aptitude install ncurses-bin

Summary

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