slirp command not found

Introduction

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

slirp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: slirp: command not found

Solutions to slirp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu slirp is provided by slirp package.

slirp is:

Slirp is a TCP/IP emulator which turns an ordinary shell account into a (C)SLIP/PPP account. This allows shell users to use all the funky Internet applications like Netscape, Mosaic, CUSeeMe, etc.

Please note that maybe your ISP really doesn’t like you using slirp, because they want to charge more for a ppp connection, so use it at your own risk.

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

sudo apt-get -y install slirp

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

You can also use apt command to install slirp.

sudo apt -y install slirp

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

sudo aptitude install slirp

Summary

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