makechs command not found

Introduction

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

makechs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: makechs: command not found

Solutions to makechs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu makechs is provided by jamnntpd package.

jamnntpd is:

JamNNTPd is an attempt to merge Fidonet technology with modern Usenet newsreaders. Basically, JamNNTPd is NNTP server that allows newsreaders to access a JAM messagebase. (If you didn’t understand a word of this, you may not want to use JamNNTPd anyway).

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

sudo apt-get -y install jamnntpd

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

You can also use apt command to install jamnntpd.

sudo apt -y install jamnntpd

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

sudo aptitude install jamnntpd

Summary

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