eta command not found

Introduction

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

eta: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eta: command not found

Solutions to eta: command not found

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

In Ubuntu eta is provided by eta package.

eta is:

ETA is a shell utility to monitor the progress of arbitrary processes. Given a target value and a command to run that generates the current value, ETA will print a progress bar and an up-to-date estimated time for the process to complete. This is useful to monitor a variety of other tools which do not output their progress or their time until completion.

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

sudo apt-get -y install eta

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

You can also use apt command to install eta.

sudo apt -y install eta

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

sudo aptitude install eta

Summary

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