ping6 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ping6 command not found error message

Introduction

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

ping6: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ping6: command not found

In Ubuntu ping6 is provided by inetutils-ping package.

inetutils-ping is:

Ping uses ICMP to send out echo requests, and uses the reply packets to calculate latency between the sending and the destination hosts.

This is the portable GNU implementation of ping.

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

sudo apt-get -y install inetutils-ping

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

You can also use apt command to install inetutils-ping.

sudo apt -y install inetutils-ping

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

sudo aptitude install inetutils-ping

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ping6 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.