bosixnet_daemon command not found

Introduction

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

bosixnet_daemon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bosixnet_daemon: command not found

Solutions to bosixnet_daemon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bosixnet_daemon is provided by bosixnet-daemon package.

bosixnet-daemon is:

Project should be useful when you have to administer many computers distributed through different networks and connected via NAT. In most of cases you may just install miredo, gogoc or any other tunnel broker’s software and these computers will be available via IPv6 addresses. BOSixNet includes the collection of tools for automatic updating the list of such hosts.

This package provides the shell script which periodically sends information about current IPv6 address to remote server and updates local /etc/hosts based on data received from that remote server. It is expected that bosixnet-webui is launched on that remote server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bosixnet-daemon

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

You can also use apt command to install bosixnet-daemon.

sudo apt -y install bosixnet-daemon

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

sudo aptitude install bosixnet-daemon

Summary

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