exabgp-healthcheck command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix exabgp-healthcheck command not found error message

Introduction

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

exabgp-healthcheck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: exabgp-healthcheck: command not found

Solutions to exabgp-healthcheck: command not found

How To Fix exabgp-healthcheck: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu exabgp-healthcheck is provided by python3-exabgp package.

python3-exabgp is:

ExaBGP allows engineers to control their network from commodity servers. Think of it as Software Defined Networking using BGP by transforming BGP messages into friendly plain text or JSON.

Current documented use cases include DDOS mitigation, network visualisation, service high availability, anycast.

It features ASN4 (RFC 4893), IPv6 (RFC 4760), MPLS (RFC 4659), VPLS (RFC 4762), Flow (RFC 5575), Graceful Restart (RFC 4724), Enhanced Route Refresh (RFC 7313), AIGP (RFC 7311) and more.

This package provides the Python 3 module of exabgp.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-exabgp

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-exabgp.

sudo apt -y install python3-exabgp

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

sudo aptitude install python3-exabgp

Summary

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