tor-prompt command not found

Introduction

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

tor-prompt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tor-prompt: command not found

Solutions to tor-prompt: command not found

How To Fix tor-prompt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu tor-prompt is provided by pypy-stem package.

pypy-stem is:

Stem is a Python controller library for Tor. With it you can use Tor’s control protocol to script against the Tor process and read descriptor data relays publish about themselves.

This is PyPy series module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pypy-stem

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

You can also use apt command to install pypy-stem.

sudo apt -y install pypy-stem

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

sudo aptitude install pypy-stem

Summary

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