statnews command not found

Introduction

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

statnews: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: statnews: command not found

Solutions to statnews: command not found

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

In Ubuntu statnews is provided by statnews package.

statnews is:

This program may be useful to analyze newsgroups or mailing lists with respect to authors, messages length and frequency, and so on.

At this moment, it operates on local spools only (it has neither NNTP nor HTTP capabilities); the spool has to store one message per file in traditional mbox format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install statnews

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

You can also use apt command to install statnews.

sudo apt -y install statnews

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

sudo aptitude install statnews

Summary

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