fusioninventory-netinventory command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix fusioninventory-netinventory command not found error message

Introduction

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

fusioninventory-netinventory: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fusioninventory-netinventory: command not found

Solutions to fusioninventory-netinventory: command not found

How To Fix fusioninventory-netinventory: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fusioninventory-netinventory is provided by fusioninventory-agent-task-network package.

fusioninventory-agent-task-network is:

This module scans your networks to quickly identify its hosts with SNMP, Echo Ping, TimeStamp ping, arp table lookup and NetBIOS request:

  • networking devices discovery within an IP range
  • identify unknown MAC addresses

The plugin depends on FusionInventory for GLPI on server side.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fusioninventory-agent-task-network

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

You can also use apt command to install fusioninventory-agent-task-network.

sudo apt -y install fusioninventory-agent-task-network

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

sudo aptitude install fusioninventory-agent-task-network

Summary

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