circle-be command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix circle-be command not found error message

Introduction

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

circle-be: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: circle-be: command not found

In Ubuntu circle-be is provided by circle-backend package.

circle-backend is:

Circle is an IRC client which merges the best attributes of a local client and the common screen+irssi recipe:

Keep IRC connects and state on a backend server, allowing disconnections from local UI.
Interact with a real local GUI for the frontend, instead of incurring SSH roundtrips for every keypress.

Circle uses Tangence for its underlying communications layer.

This package is meant to be used together with a package providing a user-facing frontend, e.g. circle-term or circle-gtk.

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

sudo apt-get -y install circle-backend

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

You can also use apt command to install circle-backend.

sudo apt -y install circle-backend

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

sudo aptitude install circle-backend

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