discus command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix discus command not found error message

Introduction

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

discus: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: discus: command not found

Solutions to discus: command not found

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

In Ubuntu discus is provided by discus package.

discus is:

Discus aims to make df prettier, with features such as color, graphs, and smart formatting of numbers (automatically choosing the most suitable size from kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes). If you don’t want Discus deciding the best sizes, you can also choose your own increments, along with specifying the number of decimal places you’d like to see.

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

sudo apt-get -y install discus

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

You can also use apt command to install discus.

sudo apt -y install discus

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

sudo aptitude install discus

Summary

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