net-server command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix net-server command not found error message

Introduction

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

net-server: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: net-server: command not found

Solutions to net-server: command not found

How To Fix net-server: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu net-server is provided by libnet-server-perl package.

libnet-server-perl is:

Net::Server is an extensible, general perl server engine that combines the good properties from Net::Daemon, NetServer::Generic, and Net::FTPServer; and borrows various concepts from the Apache webserver.

Features include:

  • Single Server Mode
  • Inetd Server Mode
  • Preforking Simple Mode (PreForkSimple)
  • Preforking Managed Mode (PreFork)
  • Forking Mode
  • Multiplexing Mode using a single process
  • Multi port accepts on Single, Preforking, and Forking modes
  • Simultaneous accept/recv on tcp, udp, and unix sockets
  • Safe signal handling in Fork/PreFork avoids perl signal trouble
  • User customizable hooks
  • Chroot ability after bind
  • Change of user and group after bind
  • Basic allow/deny access control
  • Customized logging (choose Syslog, log_file, or STDERR)
  • HUP able server (clean restarts via sig HUP)
  • Dequeue ability in all Fork and PreFork modes.
  • Taint clean
  • Written in Perl
  • Protection against buffer overflow
  • Clean process flow
  • Extensibility

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

sudo apt-get -y install libnet-server-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libnet-server-perl.

sudo apt -y install libnet-server-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libnet-server-perl

Summary

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