nsca-ng command not found

Introduction

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

nsca-ng: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nsca-ng: command not found

Solutions to nsca-ng: command not found

How To Fix nsca-ng: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu nsca-ng is provided by nsca-ng-server package.

nsca-ng-server is:

The NSCA-ng server makes the Icinga command file accessible from remote systems. This allows for submitting passive check results, downtimes, and many other commands to Icinga.

The communication with clients is TLS encrypted and authenticated using pre-shared keys (as per RFC 4279). The NSCA-ng server supports per-client passwords and fine-grained authorization control.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nsca-ng-server

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

You can also use apt command to install nsca-ng-server.

sudo apt -y install nsca-ng-server

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

sudo aptitude install nsca-ng-server

Summary

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