gtkterm command not found

Introduction

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

gtkterm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gtkterm: command not found

Solutions to gtkterm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gtkterm is provided by gtkterm package.

gtkterm is:

gtkterm is a simple GTK+ terminal used to communicate with the serial port.

Its features :

• Serial port terminal window
• Serial port setup (speed, parity, bits, stopbits, flow control)
• Using the termios API
• Possible to send a file (only RAW data, no protocol)
• End of line delay while sending a file
• Special character wait before next line while sending a file
• Possible to toggle control lines manually (DTR, CTS)
• Also reads the state of control lines (RTS, CD, DSR, RI)

Author: Julien Schmitt [email protected]

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

sudo apt-get -y install gtkterm

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

You can also use apt command to install gtkterm.

sudo apt -y install gtkterm

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

sudo aptitude install gtkterm

Summary

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