multicat command not found

Introduction

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

multicat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: multicat: command not found

Solutions to multicat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu multicat is provided by multicat package.

multicat is:

The multicat package contains a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams (ISO/IEC 13818-1) in particular.

The multicat suite of applications is very lightweight and designed to operate in tight environments. Memory and CPU usages are kept to a minimum, and they feature only one thread of execution.

The package contain fives programs: multicat, ingests, offsets, aggregartp and desaggregartp.

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

sudo apt-get -y install multicat

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

You can also use apt command to install multicat.

sudo apt -y install multicat

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

sudo aptitude install multicat

Summary

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