testcaldav command not found

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

Introduction

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

testcaldav: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: testcaldav: command not found

Solutions to testcaldav: command not found

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

In Ubuntu testcaldav is provided by caldav-tester package.

caldav-tester is:

CalDAVTester is a test and performance application designed to work with CalDAV and / or CardDAV servers and tests various aspects of their protocol handling as well as performanc.

CalDAVTester basically executes HTTP requests against a server and verifies the responses returned by the server. Suites of tests are defined in xml configuration files, and an additional xml configuration file is used to define variables used whilst running (e.g., server address, user accounts to use etc).

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

sudo apt-get -y install caldav-tester

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

You can also use apt command to install caldav-tester.

sudo apt -y install caldav-tester

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

sudo aptitude install caldav-tester

Summary

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