microcom command not found

Introduction

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

microcom: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: microcom: command not found

Solutions to microcom: command not found

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

In Ubuntu microcom is provided by microcom package.

microcom is:

microcom is a minimalistic terminal program for accessing devices (e.g. switches) via a serial connection. It features connection via RS232 serial interfaces (including setting of transferrates) as well as in “telnet mode” as specified in rfc2217.

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

sudo apt-get -y install microcom

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

You can also use apt command to install microcom.

sudo apt -y install microcom

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

sudo aptitude install microcom

Summary

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