st command not found

Introduction

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

st: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: st: command not found

Solutions to st: command not found

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

In Ubuntu st is provided by stterm package.

stterm is:

st is a terminal emulator from the suckless project with a focus on simplicity, clarity and frugality. The project’s philosophy is about keeping things simple, minimal and usable.

st supports most VT10X escape sequences, serial lines, XIM, utmp via utmp(1), clipboard handling, mouse and keyboard shortcuts, UTF-8, wide characters, resize, 256 colors, true colors, antialiased fonts (using fontconfig), fallback fonts, and line drawing. It does not provide a scrollback buffer: users are encouraged to use a terminal multiplexter.

This Debian package is called ‘stterm’ for historical reasons.

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

sudo apt-get -y install stterm

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

You can also use apt command to install stterm.

sudo apt -y install stterm

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

sudo aptitude install stterm

Summary

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