prayer-accountd command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix prayer-accountd command not found error message

Introduction

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

prayer-accountd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prayer-accountd: command not found

Solutions to prayer-accountd: command not found

How To Fix prayer-accountd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu prayer-accountd is provided by prayer-accountd package.

prayer-accountd is:

Prayer is yet another Webmail interface.

It is unusual in that it is a complete, standalone, HTTP server and proxy rather a Apache/mod_php plugin. Prayer maintains persistent connections to the IMAP server and is written entirely in C. Consequently it is much faster than most open source Webmail interfaces and puts very little load on either the machines running the Web server or the backend IMAP servers (even if traditional Unix format mailfolders are in use).

This package contains a daemon that can do the following for users:

  • Change passwords
  • Change their full name
  • Manage mail filtering (requires Exim) and forwarding
  • Manage vacation messages and logs

NOTE: This package is currently not very useful.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prayer-accountd

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

You can also use apt command to install prayer-accountd.

sudo apt -y install prayer-accountd

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

sudo aptitude install prayer-accountd

Summary

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