screen-ir command not found

Introduction

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

screen-ir: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: screen-ir: command not found

Solutions to screen-ir: command not found

How To Fix screen-ir: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu screen-ir is provided by iselect package.

iselect is:

iSelect is an interactive line selection tool, operating via a full-screen Curses-based terminal session. It can be used either as an user interface frontend controlled by a Bourne-Shell/Perl/Tcl backend as its control script or in batch mode as a pipeline filter (usually between grep and the final executing command).

This package also includes screen-ir, a script to interactively reattach to one of several screen sessions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install iselect

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

You can also use apt command to install iselect.

sudo apt -y install iselect

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

sudo aptitude install iselect

Summary

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