hamster command not found

Introduction

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

hamster: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hamster: command not found

Solutions to hamster: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hamster is provided by hamster-time-tracker package.

hamster-time-tracker is:

Project Hamster helps you to keep track of how much time you spend on various activities during the day. Whenever you move from one task to another, you can change your current activity, or you can record time spent afterwards.

It can present graphical statistics of how long you have spent on each task, and may be useful for project management or keeping employee timesheets.

This package contains the background daemon and GNOME application, an extension to integrate into the gnome-shell top bar is separately available.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hamster-time-tracker

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

You can also use apt command to install hamster-time-tracker.

sudo apt -y install hamster-time-tracker

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

sudo aptitude install hamster-time-tracker

Summary

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