pinfo command not found

Introduction

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

pinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pinfo: command not found

Solutions to pinfo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pinfo is provided by pinfo package.

pinfo is:

Pinfo is user-friendly, console-based viewer for Info documents.

Info document is an old (pre-html) hypertextual docuemntation format that is tradionally used for documentation of GNU utilities. GNU’s default reader for info pages (simply called “info”) however is not very easy to use due to its arcane key bindings.

Pinfo provides a somewhat more userfriendly interface for reading info pages on the console. It uses regular keybinding (cursor keys do what you expect, and navigating though a document is straightforward).

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

sudo apt-get -y install pinfo

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

You can also use apt command to install pinfo.

sudo apt -y install pinfo

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

sudo aptitude install pinfo

Summary

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