tcvt command not found

Introduction

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

tcvt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tcvt: command not found

Solutions to tcvt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tcvt is provided by tcvt package.

tcvt is:

Your screen is getting wider. Keeping track of long lines gets harder. Space on the right hand side of the screen is completely blank due to short lines. Are you struggling with these? Then tcvt is for you.

The two column virtual terminal, short tcvt, can be used to vertically split a single terminal in two (or more) columns. This is similar to a two column layout in printing, just for regular terminals.

Note that this is not about placing two terminals next to each other. This task is already solved by tiling window managers, screen, tmux and splitvt. What tcvt does is create a single very tall terminal with two columns.

Please note that the current version does not support UTF-8 yet. Experimental patches are available in the utf8 branch of the upstream repository.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tcvt

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

You can also use apt command to install tcvt.

sudo apt -y install tcvt

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

sudo aptitude install tcvt

Summary

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