inetutils-ifconfig command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix inetutils-ifconfig command not found error message

Introduction

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

inetutils-ifconfig: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: inetutils-ifconfig: command not found

In Ubuntu inetutils-ifconfig is provided by inetutils-tools package.

inetutils-tools is:

Base utilities for network administration:

WARNING: The current ifconfig implementation provided is not fully compatible with the net-tool’s ifconfig version.

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

sudo apt-get -y install inetutils-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install inetutils-tools

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

sudo aptitude install inetutils-tools

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