avahi-discover command not found

Introduction

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

avahi-discover: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: avahi-discover: command not found

Solutions to avahi-discover: command not found

How To Fix avahi-discover: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu avahi-discover is provided by avahi-discover package.

avahi-discover is:

Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration. For example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to.

This package contains a user interface for discovering services.

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

sudo apt-get -y install avahi-discover

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

You can also use apt command to install avahi-discover.

sudo apt -y install avahi-discover

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

sudo aptitude install avahi-discover

Summary

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