bird command not found

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

Introduction

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

bird: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bird: command not found

Solutions to bird: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bird is provided by bird2 package.

bird2 is:

BIRD is an Internet routing daemon with full support for all the major routing protocols. It allows redistribution between protocols with a powerful route filtering syntax and an easy-to-use configuration interface.

BIRD supports IPv4 and IPv6 versions of OSPF, RIP, BGP and Babel routing protocols. It also supports supplementary protocols like BFD, RPKI-Router and IPv6 router advertisements.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bird2

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

You can also use apt command to install bird2.

sudo apt -y install bird2

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

sudo aptitude install bird2

Summary

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