gpsmon command not found

Introduction

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

gpsmon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gpsmon: command not found

Solutions to gpsmon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gpsmon is provided by gpsd-tools package.

gpsd-tools is:

The gpsd service daemon can monitor one or more GPS devices connected to a host computer, making all data on the location and movements of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947.

This package contains the most common tools ‘gpsmon’ and ‘cgps’ used to access a GPS device.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gpsd-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install gpsd-tools.

sudo apt -y install gpsd-tools

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

sudo aptitude install gpsd-tools

Summary

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