httpclient command not found

Introduction

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

httpclient: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: httpclient: command not found

Solutions to httpclient: command not found

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

In Ubuntu httpclient is provided by ruby-httpclient package.

ruby-httpclient is:

httpclient gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby.

Features: * methods like GET/HEAD/POST/* via HTTP/1.1. * HTTPS(SSL), Cookies, proxy, authentication(Digest, NTLM, Basic), etc. * asynchronous HTTP request, streaming HTTP request. * by contrast with net/http in standard distribution; - Cookies support - MT-safe - streaming POST (POST with File/IO) - Digest auth - Negotiate/NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate (requires net/htlm module) - NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate/Proxy-Authenticate (requires win32/sspi module) - extensible with filter interface - you don’t have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection (httpclient cares instead of you).

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-httpclient

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-httpclient.

sudo apt -y install ruby-httpclient

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-httpclient

Summary

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