ircd-hybrid command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ircd-hybrid command not found error message

Introduction

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

ircd-hybrid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ircd-hybrid: command not found

Solutions to ircd-hybrid: command not found

How To Fix ircd-hybrid: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ircd-hybrid is provided by ircd-hybrid package.

ircd-hybrid is:

ircd-hybrid is a stable, high-performance IRC server that features:

  • SSL client support and server-to-server RSA encryption;
  • Compressed server links;
  • Channel exceptions (+e) and invitation exceptions (+I);
  • New configuration file format;
  • Halfops (+h) and anti-spam user mode +g;
  • Dynamically loadable modules;
  • Channel and nickname RESV’s (reservations).

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

sudo apt-get -y install ircd-hybrid

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

You can also use apt command to install ircd-hybrid.

sudo apt -y install ircd-hybrid

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

sudo aptitude install ircd-hybrid

Summary

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