utalk command not found

Introduction

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

utalk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: utalk: command not found

Solutions to utalk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu utalk is provided by utalk package.

utalk is:

utalk uses a protocol, based on UDP, which ensures a quick response even over links with high packet loss, allows editing of previously typed text, including scrollback, deletion and overstrike, and provides some additional features. It is not compatible with BSD talk program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install utalk

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

You can also use apt command to install utalk.

sudo apt -y install utalk

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

sudo aptitude install utalk

Summary

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