tack command not found

Introduction

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

tack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tack: command not found

Solutions to tack: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tack is provided by tack package.

tack is:

The ’tack’ program is a diagnostic tool that is designed to create and verify the correctness of terminfo’s. This program can be used to create new terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard ncurses release.

Although ’tack’ has been distributed with ncurses-bin, it is not an integral part of ncurses and was thus split out from it by upstream.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tack

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

You can also use apt command to install tack.

sudo apt -y install tack

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

sudo aptitude install tack

Summary

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