charon-cmd command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix charon-cmd command not found error message

Introduction

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

charon-cmd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: charon-cmd: command not found

In Ubuntu charon-cmd is provided by charon-cmd package.

charon-cmd is:

The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard Linux kernel. It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols.

This package contains the charon-cmd command, which can be used as a client to connect to a remote IKE daemon.

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

sudo apt-get -y install charon-cmd

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

You can also use apt command to install charon-cmd.

sudo apt -y install charon-cmd

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

sudo aptitude install charon-cmd

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