mc-wait-for-name command not found

Introduction

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

mc-wait-for-name: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mc-wait-for-name: command not found

Solutions to mc-wait-for-name: command not found

How To Fix mc-wait-for-name: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mc-wait-for-name is provided by telepathy-mission-control-5 package.

telepathy-mission-control-5 is:

Telepathy Mission Control 5 is an account manager and channel dispatcher for the Telepathy framework, allowing user interfaces and other clients to share connections to real-time communication services without conflicting. It implements the AccountManager and ChannelDispatcher D-Bus APIs as described by telepathy-spec.

The account manager part stores real time communication account details, connects to the stored accounts on request, and sets the accounts’ presence, nickname and avatar according to requests from Telepathy user interfaces and other components.

The channel dispatcher part responds to incoming communication channels (message streams, voice/video calls, file transfers etc.) by dispatching them to suitable user interfaces, and requests outgoing communication channels according to requests from a Telepathy UI.

This is not a compatible replacement for Mission Control 4 (in the telepathy-mission-control package), but they can be installed in parallel.

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

sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-mission-control-5

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

You can also use apt command to install telepathy-mission-control-5.

sudo apt -y install telepathy-mission-control-5

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

sudo aptitude install telepathy-mission-control-5

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mc-wait-for-name command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.