noping command not found

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

Introduction

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

noping: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: noping: command not found

Solutions to noping: command not found

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

In Ubuntu noping is provided by oping package.

oping is:

oping uses ICMP packages (better known as “ping packets”) to test the reachability of network hosts. It supports pinging multiple hosts in parallel using IPv4 and/or IPv6 transparently.

This package contains two command line applications: “oping” is a replacement for tools like ping(1), ping6(1) and fping(1). “noping” is an ncurses-based tool which displays statistics while pinging and highlights aberrant round-trip times.

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

sudo apt-get -y install oping

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

You can also use apt command to install oping.

sudo apt -y install oping

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

sudo aptitude install oping

Summary

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