multitail command not found

Introduction

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

multitail: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: multitail: command not found

Solutions to multitail: command not found

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

In Ubuntu multitail is provided by multitail package.

multitail is:

multitail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program.

The difference is that this program creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles for faster recognizing which lines are important and which are not.

It is optimized for terminal-sessions through slow links.

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

sudo apt-get -y install multitail

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

You can also use apt command to install multitail.

sudo apt -y install multitail

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

sudo aptitude install multitail

Summary

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