smsd command not found

Introduction

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

smsd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smsd: command not found

Solutions to smsd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smsd is provided by gnokii-smsd package.

gnokii-smsd is:

Gnokii is a suite of programs that allows communication with mobile phones. It currently supports many Nokia mobile phones, all AT capable ones as well as many Symbian based. For a list of compatible phones, please visit: http://wiki.gnokii.org

The SMSD (SMS daemon) handles automated sending and receiving of short messages using a storage backend. It is designed to use modules (plugins) to work with different backends, and shares Gnokii’s runtime configuration and libraries.

This package contains the actual daemon and a file based backend. You will need to install the appropriate module packages to add support for other backends.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnokii-smsd

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

You can also use apt command to install gnokii-smsd.

sudo apt -y install gnokii-smsd

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

sudo aptitude install gnokii-smsd

Summary

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