foxeye-0.12.1 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix foxeye-0.12.1 command not found error message

Introduction

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

foxeye-0.12.1: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: foxeye-0.12.1: command not found

Solutions to foxeye-0.12.1: command not found

How To Fix foxeye-0.12.1: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu foxeye-0.12.1 is provided by foxeye package.

foxeye is:

FoxEye is a multipurpose generic modular base to create clients or servers for client-server type networks such as IRC, ICQ, etc. All what you need to make an IRC bot or ICQ client is few modules that implement functionality you require. The FoxEye written in pure C with small resource requirements in mind.

This package contains main daemon and few modules. Available modules are: autolog, irc, irc-channel, irc-ctcp, ircd, logs, lua, modes, tcl, ziplink. With this set of modules FoxEye can serve two purposes:

  • IRC bot (similar to Eggdrop);
  • IRC server (ircd, RFC2810…2813 compliant). More purposes are under development now and third-party modules are available to create using foxeye-dev package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install foxeye

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

You can also use apt command to install foxeye.

sudo apt -y install foxeye

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

sudo aptitude install foxeye

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix foxeye-0.12.1 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.