timed-process command not found

Introduction

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

timed-process: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: timed-process: command not found

Solutions to timed-process: command not found

How To Fix timed-process: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu timed-process is provided by libproc-background-perl package.

libproc-background-perl is:

Proc::Background is a generic interface for placing processes in the background on both Unix and Win32 platforms. This module lets you start, kill, wait on, retrieve exit values, and see if background processes still exist.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libproc-background-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libproc-background-perl.

sudo apt -y install libproc-background-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libproc-background-perl

Summary

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