nntp-list command not found

Introduction

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

nntp-list: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nntp-list: command not found

Solutions to nntp-list: command not found

How To Fix nntp-list: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu nntp-list is provided by sinntp package.

sinntp is:

sinntp is a tiny NNTP client originally designed to work in non-interactive mode. Following commands are supported:

• nntp-push: sending articles to the server,
• nntp-pull: fetching new articles to the mbox file,
• nntp-list: listing available newsgroups,
• nntp-get: downloading individual messages in RFC822 format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sinntp

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

You can also use apt command to install sinntp.

sudo apt -y install sinntp

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

sudo aptitude install sinntp

Summary

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