dbeacon command not found

Introduction

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

dbeacon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dbeacon: command not found

Solutions to dbeacon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dbeacon is provided by dbeacon package.

dbeacon is:

dbeacon is a multicast beacon: its main purpose is to monitor other beacons' reachability and collect statistics such as loss, delay and jitter between them.

dbeacon supports both IPv4 and IPv6 multicast, collecting information using both Any Source Multicast (ASM) and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM).

This package also includes dbeacon matrix, a Perl script to generate beacon reachability matrices in HTML.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dbeacon

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

You can also use apt command to install dbeacon.

sudo apt -y install dbeacon

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

sudo aptitude install dbeacon

Summary

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