ptiptop command not found

Introduction

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

ptiptop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ptiptop: command not found

Solutions to ptiptop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ptiptop is provided by tiptop package.

tiptop is:

Tiptop is a performance monitoring tool for Linux. It provides a dynamic real-time view of the tasks running in the system. Tiptop is very similar to the top utility, but most of the information displayed comes from hardware counters.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tiptop

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

You can also use apt command to install tiptop.

sudo apt -y install tiptop

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

sudo aptitude install tiptop

Summary

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