script command not found

Introduction

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

script: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: script: command not found

Solutions to script: command not found

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

In Ubuntu script is provided by bsdutils package.

bsdutils is:

This package contains the bare minimum of BSD utilities needed for a Debian system: logger, renice, script, scriptlive, scriptreplay and wall. The remaining standard BSD utilities are provided by bsdextrautils.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bsdutils

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

You can also use apt command to install bsdutils.

sudo apt -y install bsdutils

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

sudo aptitude install bsdutils

Summary

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