bing command not found

Introduction

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

bing: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bing: command not found

Solutions to bing: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bing is provided by bing package.

bing is:

Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the ‘b’), based on ping.

Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests’ round trip times for different packet sizes at each end of the link.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bing

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

You can also use apt command to install bing.

sudo apt -y install bing

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

sudo aptitude install bing

Summary

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