owexternal command not found

Introduction

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

owexternal: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: owexternal: command not found

Solutions to owexternal: command not found

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

In Ubuntu owexternal is provided by owserver package.

owserver is:

The 1-Wire bus is a cheap low-speed bus for devices like weather sensors, access control, etc. It can be attached to your system via serial, USB, I2C, and other interfaces.

OWserver arbitrates access to the 1-Wire bus from multiple client processes. The physical bus is usually connected to a serial or USB port, and other processes connect to owserver over network sockets (tcp port). Communication can be local or over a network.

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

sudo apt-get -y install owserver

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

You can also use apt command to install owserver.

sudo apt -y install owserver

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

sudo aptitude install owserver

Summary

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