grabserial command not found

Introduction

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

grabserial: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: grabserial: command not found

Solutions to grabserial: command not found

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

In Ubuntu grabserial is provided by grabserial package.

grabserial is:

grabserial is a small program which reads a serial port and writes the data tostandard output. The main purpose of this tool is to collect messages written to the serial console from a target board running Linux, and save the message on a host machine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install grabserial

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

You can also use apt command to install grabserial.

sudo apt -y install grabserial

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

sudo aptitude install grabserial

Summary

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