ippl command not found

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

Introduction

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

ippl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ippl: command not found

In Ubuntu ippl is provided by ippl package.

ippl is:

writes information about incoming ICMP messages, TCP connections and UDP datagrams to syslog.

It is highly configurable and has a built-in DNS cache.

Please note that upstream is rather inactive lately (no release since 2001), and that there are some rather nasty bugs.

An incomplete list of the bugs includes:

Trying to fix these bugs is not easy. Please do not expect the Debian maintainer to do this, but patches are appreciated.

Please consider using a fully-grown intrusion detection system (like snort) instead of ippl.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ippl

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

You can also use apt command to install ippl.

sudo apt -y install ippl

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

sudo aptitude install ippl

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