daemon command not found

Introduction

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

daemon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: daemon: command not found

Solutions to daemon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu daemon is provided by daemon package.

daemon is:

There are many tasks that need to be performed to correctly set up a daemon process. This can be tedious. Daemon performs these tasks for other processes. This is useful for writing daemons in languages other than C, C++ or Perl (e.g. /bin/sh, Java).

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

sudo apt-get -y install daemon

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

You can also use apt command to install daemon.

sudo apt -y install daemon

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

sudo aptitude install daemon

Summary

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