sputnik command not found

Introduction

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

sputnik: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sputnik: command not found

Solutions to sputnik: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sputnik is provided by sputnik package.

sputnik is:

Sputnik is a wiki written in Lua. It is also a platform for building a range of wiki-like applications, drawing on Lua’s strengths as an extension language.

Out of the box Sputnik behaves like a wiki with all the standard wiki features: editable pages, protection against spam bots, history view of pages, diff, preview, per-page-RSS feed for site changes.

At the same time, Sputnik is designed to be used as a platform for a wide range of “social software” applications. Sputnik stores its data as versioned “pages” that can be editable through the web, and it allows those pages to store any data that can be saved as text (prose, comma-separated values, lists of named parameters, Lua tables, mbox-formatted messages, XML, etc.) While by default the page is displayed as if it carried Markdown-formatted text, the way the page is viewed (or edited, or saved, etc.) can be overridden on a per-page basis by over-riding or adding “actions”.

The packages provide a wide range of storage modules that may require one of the suggested packages: git, lua5.1-sql-sqlite3, lua5.1-sql-mysql.

The easiest form of deployment is by using the Xavante web server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sputnik

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

You can also use apt command to install sputnik.

sudo apt -y install sputnik

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

sudo aptitude install sputnik

Summary

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