modemtest command not found

Introduction

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

modemtest: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: modemtest: command not found

Solutions to modemtest: command not found

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

In Ubuntu modemtest is provided by libdevice-serialport-perl package.

libdevice-serialport-perl is:

Device::SerialPort provides an object-based user interface essentially identical to the one provided by the Win32::SerialPort module. This provides device-level access to a system’s serial port.

Also included is modemtest – a tool for examining your modem using Device::SerialPort.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdevice-serialport-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libdevice-serialport-perl.

sudo apt -y install libdevice-serialport-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libdevice-serialport-perl

Summary

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