pushpin command not found

Introduction

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

pushpin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pushpin: command not found

Solutions to pushpin: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pushpin is provided by pushpin package.

pushpin is:

Pushpin is a reverse proxy server that makes it easy to implement WebSocket, HTTP streaming, and HTTP long-polling services. It communicates with backend web applications using regular, short-lived HTTP requests (GRIP protocol). This allows backend applications to be written in any language and use any webserver.

Additionally, Pushpin does all of this without exposing a proprietary protocol to clients. The HTTP/WebSocket content between the client and your server is whatever you want it to be. This makes it ideal for implementing APIs.

Pushpin is written in C++. The name means to “pin” (hold) connections open for “pushing”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pushpin

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

You can also use apt command to install pushpin.

sudo apt -y install pushpin

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

sudo aptitude install pushpin

Summary

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