recaplog command not found

Introduction

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

recaplog: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: recaplog: command not found

Solutions to recaplog: command not found

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

In Ubuntu recaplog is provided by recap package.

recap is:

This program is intended to be used as a companion for the reporting provided by sysstat. It will create a set of reports summarizing hardware resource utilization. The script also provides optional reporting on a web server, MySQL and network connections.

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

sudo apt-get -y install recap

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

You can also use apt command to install recap.

sudo apt -y install recap

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

sudo aptitude install recap

Summary

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