rpost command not found

Introduction

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

rpost: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rpost: command not found

Solutions to rpost: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rpost is provided by suck package.

suck is:

This package contains software for copying news from an NNTP server to your local machine, and copying replies back up to an NNTP server.

The suck/rpost combination allows you to run your own INN/CNEWS site, controlling where you get your news, and where you post outgoing articles. Suck/rpost use only standard NNTP commands that are used by your favorite news reader (like tin, knews, trn) such as POST and ARTICLE. If you can use tin or knews against an NNTP site, than you can use Suck/Rpost and have multiple site feeds.

NOTE: Suck will not work with obsolete NNTP servers that can’t handle the xhdr command.

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

sudo apt-get -y install suck

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

You can also use apt command to install suck.

sudo apt -y install suck

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

sudo aptitude install suck

Summary

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