fingerw command not found

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

Introduction

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

fingerw: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fingerw: command not found

Solutions to fingerw: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fingerw is provided by libwww-finger-perl package.

libwww-finger-perl is:

This module is not an implementation of the finger protocol (RFC 1288). Use Net::Finger for that. Instead it is a set of implementations of other methods for getting information from an e-mail address, or e-mail-like identifier. This package includes four such implementations, and it’s pretty easy to create your own additional implementations:

  • WebFinger
  • Fingerpoint
  • cpan.org scraper (for [email protected])
  • Unnamed finger protocol described on bitworking.org

Only the first two implementations are enabled by default. See “IMPLEMENTATIONS” on how to enable others, and for more details.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libwww-finger-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libwww-finger-perl.

sudo apt -y install libwww-finger-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libwww-finger-perl

Summary

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