fling command not found

Introduction

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

fling: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fling: command not found

Solutions to fling: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fling is provided by fling package.

fling is:

fling transfers data quickly over a trusted network. It does not encrypt the data. It tries to avoid copying data between kernel and userspace where it can. The most improvement over other tools like netcat is seen on systems with low memory bandwidth. fling is extremely Linux-specific, as almost all the optimisations used beyond what other similar tools do are non-portable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fling

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

You can also use apt command to install fling.

sudo apt -y install fling

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

sudo aptitude install fling

Summary

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