imaprowl command not found

Introduction

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

imaprowl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: imaprowl: command not found

Solutions to imaprowl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu imaprowl is provided by imaprowl package.

imaprowl is:

Prowl is a service and an App for iPhone’s Push Notification service.(APNs) see http://prowl.weks.net/ for more about Prowl.

IMAProwl is an utility script to notify new mail of IMAP server with Prowl service. It’s very useful to push notification of GMail or any other IMAP mail service to your iPhone.

This program uses IMAP/IDLE(RFC2177) or IMAP/NOOP to check the new mail on IMAP server and uses Prowl Public API via HTTPS.

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

sudo apt-get -y install imaprowl

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

You can also use apt command to install imaprowl.

sudo apt -y install imaprowl

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

sudo aptitude install imaprowl

Summary

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