fwb_compile_all command not found

Introduction

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

fwb_compile_all: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fwb_compile_all: command not found

Solutions to fwb_compile_all: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fwb_compile_all is provided by fwbuilder package.

fwbuilder is:

Firewall Builder consists of an object-oriented GUI and a set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. In Firewall Builder, firewall policy is a set of rules, each rule consists of abstract objects which represent real network objects and services (hosts, routers, firewalls, networks, protocols). Firewall Builder helps the user maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations.

This is the GUI part of fwbuilder

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

sudo apt-get -y install fwbuilder

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

You can also use apt command to install fwbuilder.

sudo apt -y install fwbuilder

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

sudo aptitude install fwbuilder

Summary

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