ss-local command not found

Introduction

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

ss-local: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ss-local: command not found

Solutions to ss-local: command not found

How To Fix ss-local: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ss-local is provided by shadowsocks-libev package.

shadowsocks-libev is:

Shadowsocks-libev is a lightweight and secure socks5 proxy for embedded devices and low end boxes.

Shadowsocks-libev was inspired by Shadowsocks (in Python). It’s rewritten in pure C and only depends on libev, mbedTLS and a few other tiny libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install shadowsocks-libev

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

You can also use apt command to install shadowsocks-libev.

sudo apt -y install shadowsocks-libev

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

sudo aptitude install shadowsocks-libev

Summary

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