xtrace command not found

Introduction

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

xtrace: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xtrace: command not found

Solutions to xtrace: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xtrace is provided by xtrace package.

xtrace is:

What strace is for system calls, xtrace is for X11 connections: you hook it between one or more X11 clients and an X server and it prints the requests going from client to server and the replies, events and errors going the other way.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xtrace

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

You can also use apt command to install xtrace.

sudo apt -y install xtrace

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

sudo aptitude install xtrace

Summary

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