t-prot command not found

Introduction

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

t-prot: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: t-prot: command not found

Solutions to t-prot: command not found

How To Fix t-prot: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu t-prot is provided by t-prot package.

t-prot is:

This program provides “TOFU-Protection” to improve the readability of email and newsposts. TOFU is a German acronym for “Text oben, Fullquote unten”, meaning the regrettably widespread reply style that leaves all the quotes untrimmed and just adds some text at the top. This script filters annoying mailing list footers, long signatures, and TOFU, as well as squeezing sequences of blank lines, exclamation marks, etc.

It currently offers example configurations for applying t-prot within heirloom-mailx, INN 2, mailcap, Mutt, or slrn. It should be possible to do likewise with other programs that allow a message to be passed through a filter before being displayed. If you use such a program we’d be interested if you could send in your setup.

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

sudo apt-get -y install t-prot

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

You can also use apt command to install t-prot.

sudo apt -y install t-prot

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

sudo aptitude install t-prot

Summary

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