ftpwatch command not found

Introduction

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

ftpwatch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ftpwatch: command not found

Solutions to ftpwatch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ftpwatch is provided by ftpwatch package.

ftpwatch is:

This package should be installed as a cron job (for interested users) which every week makes a ftp connection to a list of sites and studies a set of files or directories and report any changes it finds by email.

Every user can have his own set of sites and directories to watch.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ftpwatch

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

You can also use apt command to install ftpwatch.

sudo apt -y install ftpwatch

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

sudo aptitude install ftpwatch

Summary

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