picocom command not found

Introduction

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

picocom: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: picocom: command not found

Solutions to picocom: command not found

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

In Ubuntu picocom is provided by picocom package.

picocom is:

picocom was designed to serve as a simple, manual, modem configuration, testing, and debugging tool. It has also served (quite well) as a low-tech “terminal-window” to allow operator intervention in PPP connection scripts (something like the ms-windows “open terminal window before / after dialing” feature). It could also prove useful in many other similar tasks. It is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is minimal.

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

sudo apt-get -y install picocom

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

You can also use apt command to install picocom.

sudo apt -y install picocom

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

sudo aptitude install picocom

Summary

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