oom-sort command not found

Introduction

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

oom-sort: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: oom-sort: command not found

Solutions to oom-sort: command not found

How To Fix oom-sort: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu oom-sort is provided by nohang package.

nohang is:

nohang is a highly configurable daemon for Linux which is able to correctly prevent out of memory (OOM) and keep system responsiveness in low memory conditions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nohang

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

You can also use apt command to install nohang.

sudo apt -y install nohang

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

sudo aptitude install nohang

Summary

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