sympathy command not found

Introduction

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

sympathy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sympathy: command not found

Solutions to sympathy: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sympathy is provided by sympathy package.

sympathy is:

sympathy is a system for logging and providing access to serial (RS232) ports; typically, multiple serial ports on a single server (aka, a serial concentrator).

sympathy can function as a replacement for screen(1), minicom(1) and consolidate(1).

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

sudo apt-get -y install sympathy

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

You can also use apt command to install sympathy.

sudo apt -y install sympathy

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

sudo aptitude install sympathy

Summary

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