os8 command not found

Introduction

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

os8: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: os8: command not found

Solutions to os8: command not found

How To Fix os8: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu os8 is provided by os8 package.

os8 is:

This package contains images of the OS8 operating system which are usable by a PDP-8 emulator.

The Debian simh package supplies a pdp8 emulator, but the file are in a standard format usable by any other pdp8 emulator such as Jones’s or Haygood’s emulator.

The os8 script will run the simh emulator with these images.

These images are not DFSG free because DEC prohibits commercial use of these images.

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

sudo apt-get -y install os8

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

You can also use apt command to install os8.

sudo apt -y install os8

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

sudo aptitude install os8

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix os8 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.