icmpinfo command not found

Introduction

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

icmpinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: icmpinfo: command not found

Solutions to icmpinfo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu icmpinfo is provided by icmpinfo package.

icmpinfo is:

Icmpinfo is a tool for looking at the ICMP messages received on the running host. It can be used to detect and record ‘bombs’ as well as various network problems.

Icmpinfo is useful for network security tests.

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

sudo apt-get -y install icmpinfo

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

You can also use apt command to install icmpinfo.

sudo apt -y install icmpinfo

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

sudo aptitude install icmpinfo

Summary

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