ipv4calc command not found

Introduction

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

ipv4calc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ipv4calc: command not found

Solutions to ipv4calc: command not found

How To Fix ipv4calc: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ipv4calc is provided by libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl package.

libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl is:

Net::IPv4Addr provides functions for parsing IPv4 addresses both in traditional address/netmask format and in the new CIDR format. There are also methods for calculating the network and broadcast address and also to see check if a given address is in a specific network.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl.

sudo apt -y install libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ipv4calc command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.