update-ipsets command not found

Introduction

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

update-ipsets: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update-ipsets: command not found

Solutions to update-ipsets: command not found

How To Fix update-ipsets: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu update-ipsets is provided by firehol-tools package.

firehol-tools is:

FireHOL suite is a powerful traffic suite of tools that generate generic firewalls, traffic shappers, and more with an extremely simple but powerful configuration language based on bash, enabling you to design and manage any kind of traffic with ease.

This package provides extra tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install firehol-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install firehol-tools.

sudo apt -y install firehol-tools

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

sudo aptitude install firehol-tools

Summary

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