prettyping command not found

Introduction

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

prettyping: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prettyping: command not found

Solutions to prettyping: command not found

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

In Ubuntu prettyping is provided by prettyping package.

prettyping is:

prettyping is a simple tool written in Shell to show latency between the sending and the destination hosts.

It is a wrapper around the standard ping tool with the objective of making the output prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.

prettyping runs the standard ping in the background and parses its output, showing the ping responses in a graphical way at the terminal (by using colors and Unicode characters).

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

sudo apt-get -y install prettyping

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

You can also use apt command to install prettyping.

sudo apt -y install prettyping

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

sudo aptitude install prettyping

Summary

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