nyancat command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix nyancat command not found error message

Introduction

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

nyancat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nyancat: command not found

Solutions to nyancat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nyancat is provided by nyancat package.

nyancat is:

nyancat is a program to display an animated poptart cat in your terminal.

This is a standalone program only. To serve nyancat to many users, the nyancat-server package is required.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nyancat

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

You can also use apt command to install nyancat.

sudo apt -y install nyancat

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

sudo aptitude install nyancat

Summary

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