pigs command not found

Introduction

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

pigs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pigs: command not found

Solutions to pigs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pigs is provided by pigpio-tools package.

pigpio-tools is:

Pigpio is a set of software which allows control of the General Purpose Input Outputs (GPIO) locally or remotely. Currently only the client side is Packaged in Debian as the server side is incompatible with Debian kernels.

This package provides the pigs and pig2vcd tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pigpio-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install pigpio-tools

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

sudo aptitude install pigpio-tools

Summary

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