mdm.screen command not found

Introduction

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

mdm.screen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mdm.screen: command not found

Solutions to mdm.screen: command not found

How To Fix mdm.screen: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mdm.screen is provided by mdm package.

mdm is:

The Middleman System (mdm) is a set of utilities that help you parallelize your shell scripts. Simply label the commands to run in parallel, and the System automatically exploits every parallelization opportunity that arises at runtime. You can also specify dependency between commands so that they run in an appropriate order.

Comes with an ncurses-based monitoring console. Compatible with xargs, find, make, any shell, together, in a script or interactively.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mdm

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

You can also use apt command to install mdm.

sudo apt -y install mdm

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

sudo aptitude install mdm

Summary

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