ipwatchd command not found

Introduction

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

ipwatchd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ipwatchd: command not found

Solutions to ipwatchd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ipwatchd is provided by ipwatchd package.

ipwatchd is:

IPwatchD is a simple daemon that analyses all incoming ARP packets in order to detect IP conflicts on Linux. It can be configured to listen on one or more interfaces (alias interfaces are also supported) in active or passive mode. In active mode IPwatchD protects your host before IP takeover by answering Gratuitous ARP requests received from conflicting system. In passive mode it just records information about conflict through standard syslog interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ipwatchd

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

You can also use apt command to install ipwatchd.

sudo apt -y install ipwatchd

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

sudo aptitude install ipwatchd

Summary

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