cstream command not found

Introduction

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

cstream: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cstream: command not found

Solutions to cstream: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cstream is provided by cstream package.

cstream is:

cstream is a general-purpose stream-handling tool like UNIX’ dd, usually used in commandline-constructed pipes. It has a more traditional command line syntax, support for precise bandwidth limiting and reporting and support for FIFOs. Data limits and throughput rate calculation will work for files > 4 GB.

cstream reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output, if no filenames are given. It will also ‘generate’ or ‘sink’ data if desired.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cstream

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

You can also use apt command to install cstream.

sudo apt -y install cstream

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

sudo aptitude install cstream

Summary

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