minimodem command not found

Introduction

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

minimodem: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: minimodem: command not found

Solutions to minimodem: command not found

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

In Ubuntu minimodem is provided by minimodem package.

minimodem is:

Minimodem is a command-line program which decodes (or generates) audio modem tones at any specified baud rate, using various framing protocols. It acts a general-purpose software FSK modem, and includes support for various standard FSK protocols such as Bell103, Bell202, RTTY, TTY/TDD, NOAA SAME, and Caller-ID.

Minimodem can play and capture audio modem tones in real-time via the system audio device, or in batched mode via audio files.

Minimodem can be used to transfer data between nearby computers using an audio cable (or just via sound waves), or between remote computers using radio, telephone, or another audio communications medium.

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

sudo apt-get -y install minimodem

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

You can also use apt command to install minimodem.

sudo apt -y install minimodem

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

sudo aptitude install minimodem

Summary

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