uux command not found

Introduction

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

uux: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uux: command not found

Solutions to uux: command not found

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

In Ubuntu uux is provided by uucp package.

uucp is:

UUCP will copy files to or from another (usually *nix) system, which also runs uucp.

UUCP is used to transfer mail, news and random files between systems which are not connected by more modern networks. The communication can be made via modems, direct (hard-wired) serial connections or via an IP connection.

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

sudo apt-get -y install uucp

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

You can also use apt command to install uucp.

sudo apt -y install uucp

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

sudo aptitude install uucp

Summary

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