octo_dispatcher command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix octo_dispatcher command not found error message

Introduction

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

octo_dispatcher: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: octo_dispatcher: command not found

Solutions to octo_dispatcher: command not found

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

In Ubuntu octo_dispatcher is provided by octopussy package.

octopussy is:

Octopussy is a log analyzer, alerter & reporter with Web interface. It has the following features:

  • LDAP support for Octopussy Users & Contacts
  • Send alerts by email, IM(Jabber), NSCA(Nagios) & Zabbix_sender
  • Export reports by Email, FTP & SCP
  • Create map to show your architecture
  • Input & output plugins for reports
  • Reports scheduling
  • Syslog activity graphs
  • Wide range of service support
  • Wizard to easily create new Message/Service definitions for unrecognized logs
  • Online updates for services, tables & multilanguage
  • Multilanguage support
  • Themable interface & report

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

sudo apt-get -y install octopussy

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

You can also use apt command to install octopussy.

sudo apt -y install octopussy

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

sudo aptitude install octopussy

Summary

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