sendxmpp command not found

Introduction

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

sendxmpp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sendxmpp: command not found

Solutions to sendxmpp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sendxmpp is provided by sendxmpp package.

sendxmpp is:

sendxmpp is a perl script to send text XMPP (jabber) messages, similar to what mail(1) and sendmail(1) does for mail.

sendxmpp is useful for monitoring remote servers (it can warn sending xmpp-messages), and watching VCS commit messages (developers are all connected to a XMPP-chatroom to which messages are sent.

XMPP is an open, non-proprietary protocol for instant messaging. See www.jabber.org for more information.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sendxmpp

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

You can also use apt command to install sendxmpp.

sudo apt -y install sendxmpp

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

sudo aptitude install sendxmpp

Summary

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