netkit-ntalk command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix netkit-ntalk command not found error message

Introduction

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

netkit-ntalk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: netkit-ntalk: command not found

In Ubuntu netkit-ntalk is provided by talk package.

talk is:

Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines from your terminal to that of another user.

In order to talk locally, you will need to install the talkd package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install talk

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

You can also use apt command to install talk.

sudo apt -y install talk

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

sudo aptitude install talk

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