batadv-vis command not found

Introduction

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

batadv-vis: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: batadv-vis: command not found

Solutions to batadv-vis: command not found

How To Fix batadv-vis: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu batadv-vis is provided by alfred package.

alfred is:

A.L.F.R.E.D. gathers status information in networks with dynamically chaing topologies, e.g. a Wifi mesh with mobile clients. It is a user space daemon for distributing arbitrary local information over the same mesh/network in a decentralized fashion. This data can be anything which appears to be useful - originally designed to replace the batman-adv visualization (vis), you may distribute hostnames, phone books, administration information, DNS information, the local weather forecast …

Users may insert information by using the alfred binary on the command line, or use custom written programs to communicate with alfred directly through unix sockets. Once the local data is received, the alfred daemon takes care of distributing this information to other alfred servers on other nodes somewhere in the network. As addressing scheme IPv6 link-local multicast addresses are used which do not require any manual configuration. A user can request data from alfred, and will receive the information available from all alfred servers in the network.

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

sudo apt-get -y install alfred

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

You can also use apt command to install alfred.

sudo apt -y install alfred

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

sudo aptitude install alfred

Summary

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