xwatch command not found

Introduction

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

xwatch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xwatch: command not found

Solutions to xwatch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xwatch is provided by xwatch package.

xwatch is:

The displayed logs are colour-coded according to severity. Basically, you get to see what’s going on during say a break-in, instead of having to check the logfiles after the damage is done. Of course, you need to have the syslog daemons configured right, so that the logfiles are created. Xwatch reads options from its commandline as well as from a app-defaults resource file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xwatch

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

You can also use apt command to install xwatch.

sudo apt -y install xwatch

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

sudo aptitude install xwatch

Summary

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