mlcat command not found

Introduction

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

mlcat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mlcat: command not found

Solutions to mlcat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mlcat is provided by svtools package.

svtools is:

This package provides some useful utilities to maintain supervised services and to handle multilog log files:

svdir: Find daemontools service directory. svinfo: Get infos about a supervised process. svinitd: init.d weapper for daemontools services. svinitd-create: Create an init.d-script for a supervices process. svsetup: Service setup tool for daemontools. mlcat: cat frontend for multilog files. mlhead: head frontend for multilog files. mltail: tail frontend for multilog files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install svtools

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

You can also use apt command to install svtools.

sudo apt -y install svtools

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

sudo aptitude install svtools

Summary

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