freeDiameterd command not found

Introduction

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

freeDiameterd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: freeDiameterd: command not found

Solutions to freeDiameterd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu freeDiameterd is provided by freediameterd package.

freediameterd is:

Diameter is a protocol designed to carry Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) payload. It is an evolution of the RADIUS protocol (as the name suggests).

freeDiameter is an implementation of the Diameter protocol.

This simple daemon parses the command line and initializes the freeDiameter framework. Use it for your Diameter server & agent components. In case of Diameter clients, you probably will prefer linking the libfdcore directly with your client application that must be made Diameter-aware.

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

sudo apt-get -y install freediameterd

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

You can also use apt command to install freediameterd.

sudo apt -y install freediameterd

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

sudo aptitude install freediameterd

Summary

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