update-squidguard command not found

Introduction

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

update-squidguard: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update-squidguard: command not found

Solutions to update-squidguard: command not found

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

In Ubuntu update-squidguard is provided by squidguard package.

squidguard is:

squidGuard is a free, flexible and ultra fast filter, redirector and access controller plugin for squid. It lets you define multiple access rules with different restrictions for different user groups on a squid cache. squidGuard uses squid’s standard redirector interface.

Three seldom used contrib scripts need perl support: squidGuardRobot, sgclean, hostbyname

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

sudo apt-get -y install squidguard

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

You can also use apt command to install squidguard.

sudo apt -y install squidguard

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

sudo aptitude install squidguard

Summary

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