uncat command not found

Introduction

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

uncat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uncat: command not found

Solutions to uncat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu uncat is provided by socklog package.

socklog is:

socklog cooperates with the runit package to create a small and secure replacement for rsyslog. socklog supports system logging through Unix domain sockets (/dev/log), UDP sockets (0.0.0.0:514), as well as TCP socket, with the help of runit’s runsvdir, runsv, and svlogd. socklog provides a different network logging concept, and also does log event notification. svlogd has built in log file rotation based on file size, so there is no need for any cron jobs to rotate the logs. socklog is small, secure, and reliable.

This package contains the socklog binaries and manual pages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install socklog

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

You can also use apt command to install socklog.

sudo apt -y install socklog

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

sudo aptitude install socklog

Summary

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