eggdrop command not found

Introduction

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

eggdrop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eggdrop: command not found

Solutions to eggdrop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu eggdrop is provided by eggdrop package.

eggdrop is:

Eggdrop is an IRC bot written in C, which sits on channels and takes protective measures, such as preventing it from being taken over (in the few ways that anything can), recognizing banned users to reject them, recognizing privileged users to give them operator status, punishing users for things like flooding, among innumerable others.

All of this is completely configurable, and can be disabled or enabled as you wish in the configuration file. Also, it’s very easy to expand and customize with Tcl scripts and C modules, making it possible to adapt Eggdrop to any special need you might have.

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

sudo apt-get -y install eggdrop

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

You can also use apt command to install eggdrop.

sudo apt -y install eggdrop

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

sudo aptitude install eggdrop

Summary

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