hitch command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix hitch command not found error message

Introduction

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

hitch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hitch: command not found

In Ubuntu hitch is provided by hitch package.

hitch is:

Hitch is a libev-based high performance SSL/TLS proxy, used for terminating HTTPS traffic in front of origin servers.

Hitch features:

ALPN/NPN for HTTP/2
Support for TLS1.2 and TLS1.3 and legacy TLS 1.0/1.1
SNI, with and without wildcard certificates
Automatic OCSP stapling support
Client certificate authentication
PROXY protocol to signal client IP/port to backend
Supports UNIX domain socket connections to origin
Safe for large installations: performant up to 15 000 listening sockets and 500 000 certificates
Support for seamless run-time configuration reloads of certificates and listen endpoints

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

sudo apt-get -y install hitch

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

You can also use apt command to install hitch.

sudo apt -y install hitch

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

sudo aptitude install hitch

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