update-motd command not found

Introduction

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

update-motd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update-motd: command not found

Solutions to update-motd: command not found

How To Fix update-motd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu update-motd is provided by update-motd package.

update-motd is:

This package installs a script that immediately dynamically generates a message-of-the-day by running scripts installed in /etc/update-motd.d, in lexical order.

Other packages, or system administrators should symlink scripts into /etc/update-motd.d, pre-pending a 2-digit number to handle ordering.

The functionality formerly provided by this package is now integrated into pam_motd, in libpam-modules.

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

sudo apt-get -y install update-motd

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

You can also use apt command to install update-motd.

sudo apt -y install update-motd

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

sudo aptitude install update-motd

Summary

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