collect-reminders command not found

Introduction

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

collect-reminders: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: collect-reminders: command not found

Solutions to collect-reminders: command not found

How To Fix collect-reminders: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu collect-reminders is provided by email-reminder package.

email-reminder is:

Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email. Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries and yearly events. Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and/or a few days beforehand.

This package includes the cron job that checks for events and send reminders once a daily.

Make sure you install the anacron package if your computer is turned off at night or the reminders will never get sent.

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

sudo apt-get -y install email-reminder

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

You can also use apt command to install email-reminder.

sudo apt -y install email-reminder

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

sudo aptitude install email-reminder

Summary

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