zephyrd command not found

Introduction

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

zephyrd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zephyrd: command not found

Solutions to zephyrd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu zephyrd is provided by zephyr-server package.

zephyr-server is:

Zephyr is derived from the original Project Athena ‘Instant Message’ system and allows users to send messages to other users or to groups of users. Users can view incoming Zephyr messages as windowgrams (transient X windows) or as text on a terminal.

This package provides the server for the messaging service, which maintains a location and subscription database for all the receiving clients. All zephyrgrams are sent to the server to be routed to the intended recipient. Only one server is required for a group of clients.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zephyr-server

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

You can also use apt command to install zephyr-server.

sudo apt -y install zephyr-server

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

sudo aptitude install zephyr-server

Summary

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