progress command not found

Introduction

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

progress: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: progress: command not found

Solutions to progress: command not found

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

In Ubuntu progress is provided by progress package.

progress is:

This tool can be described as a Tiny, Dirty, Linux-and-OSX-Only C command that looks for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can also show estimated time and throughput, and provide a “top-like” mode (monitoring).

It simply scans /proc for interesting commands, and then looks at directories fd and fdinfo to find opened files and seek positions, and reports status for the largest file.

It’s very light, and compatible with virtually any command. This program was formerly known as ‘cv’ on github.

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

sudo apt-get -y install progress

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

You can also use apt command to install progress.

sudo apt -y install progress

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

sudo aptitude install progress

Summary

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