ircd-ircu command not found

Introduction

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

ircd-ircu: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ircd-ircu: command not found

Solutions to ircd-ircu: command not found

How To Fix ircd-ircu: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ircd-ircu is provided by ircd-ircu package.

ircd-ircu is:

This is ircu, the Undernet Internet Relay Chat daemon, which allows interactive character based communication between people connected to this server with IRC clients. It is based on the latest stable version which can be downloaded from http://coder-com.undernet.org/.

This version is compiled for network usage but it can also run standalone. You can modify its behaviour with reconfiguring/rebuilding.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ircd-ircu

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

You can also use apt command to install ircd-ircu.

sudo apt -y install ircd-ircu

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

sudo aptitude install ircd-ircu

Summary

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