mrtg-ping-probe command not found

Introduction

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

mrtg-ping-probe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mrtg-ping-probe: command not found

Solutions to mrtg-ping-probe: command not found

How To Fix mrtg-ping-probe: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mrtg-ping-probe is provided by mrtg-ping-probe package.

mrtg-ping-probe is:

mrtg-ping-probe is a ping probe for MRTG 2.x. It is used to monitor the round trip time and packet loss to networked devices. MRTG uses its output to generate graphs visualizing minimum and maximum round trip times or packet loss.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mrtg-ping-probe

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

You can also use apt command to install mrtg-ping-probe.

sudo apt -y install mrtg-ping-probe

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

sudo aptitude install mrtg-ping-probe

Summary

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