bifcl command not found

Introduction

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

bifcl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bifcl: command not found

Solutions to bifcl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bifcl is provided by bifcl package.

bifcl is:

The bifcl program simply takes a .bif file as input and generates C++ header/source files along with a .bro script that all-together provide the declaration and implementation of Bro Built-In-Functions (BIFs), which can then be compiled and shipped as part of a Bro plugin.

A BIF allows one to write arbitrary C++ code and access it via a function call inside a Bro script. In this way, they can also be used to access parts of Bro’s internal C++ API that aren’t already exposed via their own BIFs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bifcl

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

You can also use apt command to install bifcl.

sudo apt -y install bifcl

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

sudo aptitude install bifcl

Summary

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