gupnp-network-light command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gupnp-network-light command not found error message

Introduction

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

gupnp-network-light: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gupnp-network-light: command not found

Solutions to gupnp-network-light: command not found

How To Fix gupnp-network-light: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gupnp-network-light is provided by gupnp-tools package.

gupnp-tools is:

GUPnP is an object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP devices and control points, written in C using GObject and libsoup. The GUPnP API is intended to be easy to use, efficient and flexible.

GUPnP Tools are free replacements of Intel UPnP tools that use GUPnP. They provides the following client and server side tools which enable one to easily test and debug one’s UPnP devices and control points:

  • Universal Control Point: a tool that enables one to discover UPnP devices and services, retrieve information about them, subscribe to events and invoke actions.
  • Network Light: a virtual light bulb that allows control points to switch it on and off, change its dimming level and query its current status.
  • AV Control Point: a simple media player UI that enables one to discover and play multimedia content available on the network.
  • MediaServer upload: upload files to MediaServers
  • Upload: a simple commandline utility that uploads files to known MediaServers. Use Universal Control Point for discovering the MediaServers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gupnp-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install gupnp-tools.

sudo apt -y install gupnp-tools

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

sudo aptitude install gupnp-tools

Summary

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