motion command not found

Introduction

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

motion: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: motion: command not found

Solutions to motion: command not found

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

In Ubuntu motion is provided by motion package.

motion is:

Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion.

Motion is a command line based tool. It has no graphical user interface. Everything is setup either via the command line or via configuration files.

The output from motion can be: - jpg/ppm image files - mpeg/mp4/swf/flv/mov/ogg video sequences

Also, motion has its own minimalistic web server. Thus, you can access the webcam output from motion via a browser.

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

sudo apt-get -y install motion

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

You can also use apt command to install motion.

sudo apt -y install motion

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

sudo aptitude install motion

Summary

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