multitime command not found

Introduction

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

multitime: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: multitime: command not found

Solutions to multitime: command not found

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

In Ubuntu multitime is provided by multitime package.

multitime is:

Unix’s time utility is a simple and often effective way of measuring how long a command takes to run (“wall time”). Unfortunately, running a command once can give misleading timings: the process may create a cache on its first execution, running faster subsequently; other processes may cause the command to be starved of CPU or IO time; etc. It is common to see people run time several times and take whichever values they feel most comfortable with. Inevitably, this causes problems.

multitime is, in essence, a simple extension to time which runs a command multiple times and prints the timing means, standard deviations, mins, medians, and maxes having done so. This can give a much better understanding of the command’s performance.

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

sudo apt-get -y install multitime

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

You can also use apt command to install multitime.

sudo apt -y install multitime

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

sudo aptitude install multitime

Summary

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