nghttpd command not found

Introduction

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

nghttpd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nghttpd: command not found

Solutions to nghttpd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nghttpd is provided by nghttp2-server package.

nghttp2-server is:

This is a standalone server implementing the HTTP/2 protocol with HTTP/1.1 fallback for clients that do not support it. It can be used to serve files from a local directory.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nghttp2-server

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

You can also use apt command to install nghttp2-server.

sudo apt -y install nghttp2-server

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

sudo aptitude install nghttp2-server

Summary

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