owmon command not found

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

Introduction

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

owmon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: owmon: command not found

Solutions to owmon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu owmon is provided by ow-tools package.

ow-tools 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.

This package includes two TclTk tools:

owtap: inspect network transmission of the owserver protocol
owmon: show statistics and setting for an owserver

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

sudo apt-get -y install ow-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install ow-tools.

sudo apt -y install ow-tools

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

sudo aptitude install ow-tools

Summary

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