flamethrower command not found

Introduction

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

flamethrower: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: flamethrower: command not found

Solutions to flamethrower: command not found

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

In Ubuntu flamethrower is provided by flamethrower package.

flamethrower is:

Flamethrower is intended to be an easy to use multicast file distribution system. It was created to add multicast install capabilities to SystemImager, but was designed to be fully functional as a stand-alone package.

Notable characteristics:

1. Works with entire directory hierarchies of files, not just single files.
2. Uses a server configuration file that takes module entries that are similar to those used by rsyncd.conf.
3. Flamethrower is an on-demand system. The multicast of a module is initiated when a client connects, but waits MIN_WAIT (conf file) for other clients to connect. If other clients try to connect after a cast has been initiated, they simply wait until that cast has finished, and catch the next one when it begins.
4. The udpcast package is used as the multicast transport, and offers a gob and a half of tuning parameters.

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

sudo apt-get -y install flamethrower

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

You can also use apt command to install flamethrower.

sudo apt -y install flamethrower

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

sudo aptitude install flamethrower

Summary

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