balboa-backend-console command not found

Introduction

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

balboa-backend-console: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: balboa-backend-console: command not found

Solutions to balboa-backend-console: command not found

How To Fix balboa-backend-console: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu balboa-backend-console is provided by balboa-backend-common package.

balboa-backend-common is:

balboa is the BAsic Little Book Of Answers. It consumes and indexes observations from passive DNS collection, providing a GraphQL interface to access the aggregated contents of the observations database.

This package contains files common to all backends available in Debian, such as systemd unit files and management tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install balboa-backend-common

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

You can also use apt command to install balboa-backend-common.

sudo apt -y install balboa-backend-common

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

sudo aptitude install balboa-backend-common

Summary

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