perlbal command not found

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

Introduction

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

perlbal: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: perlbal: command not found

Solutions to perlbal: command not found

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

In Ubuntu perlbal is provided by perlbal package.

perlbal is:

Perlbal is a single-threaded event-based server supporting HTTP load balancing, web serving, and a mix of the two. Perlbal can act as either a web server or a reverse proxy.

One of the defining things about Perlbal is that almost everything can be configured or reconfigured on the fly without needing to restart the software. A basic configuration file containing a management port enables you to easily perform operations on a running instance of Perlbal.

Perlbal can also be extended by means of per-service (and global) plugins that can override many parts of request handling and behavior.

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

sudo apt-get -y install perlbal

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

You can also use apt command to install perlbal.

sudo apt -y install perlbal

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

sudo aptitude install perlbal

Summary

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