comtest command not found

Introduction

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

comtest: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: comtest: command not found

Solutions to comtest: command not found

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

In Ubuntu comtest is provided by ivtools-bin package.

ivtools-bin is:

InterViews is written in C++ and portable to several different Unix platforms. Applications written with the InterViews library can be configured to provide a special “Look and Feel”, such as SGI-Motif and normal Motif. This package contains mainly drawing programs written using the InterViews library: idraw, a basic vector graphics editor, graphdraw, flipbook, a vector graphics animation tool, a vector graphics server, and some small sample programs like dclock.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ivtools-bin

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

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

sudo apt -y install ivtools-bin

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

sudo aptitude install ivtools-bin

Summary

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