fever command not found

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

Introduction

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

fever: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fever: command not found

Solutions to fever: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fever is provided by fever package.

fever is:

The Fast, Extensible, Versatile Event Router (FEVER) is a tool for fast processing of events from Suricata’s JSON EVE output. What is meant by ‘processing’ is defined by a number of modular components, for example facilitating fast ingestion into a database. Other processors implement collection, aggregation and forwarding of various metadata (e.g. aggregated and raw flows, passive DNS data, etc.) as well as performance metrics.

It is meant to be used in front of (or as a replacement for) general-purpose log processors like Logstash to increase event throughput as observed on sensors that see a lot of traffic.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fever

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

You can also use apt command to install fever.

sudo apt -y install fever

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

sudo aptitude install fever

Summary

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