sipcalc command not found

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

Introduction

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

sipcalc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sipcalc: command not found

Solutions to sipcalc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sipcalc is provided by sipcalc package.

sipcalc is:

Sipcalc is an advanced console-based IP subnet calculator. It can take multiple forms of input (IPv4/IPv6/interface/hostname) and output a multitude of information about a given subnet.

Features include:

  • IPv4
  • Retrieving of address information from interfaces.
  • Classfull and CIDR output.
  • Multiple address and netmask input and output formats (dotted quad, hex, number of bits).
  • Output of broadcast address, network class, Cisco wildcard, hosts/range, network range.
  • The ability to “split” a network based on a smaller netmask, now also with recursive runs on the generated subnets. (also IPv6)
  • IPv6
  • Compressed and expanded input and output addresses.
  • Standard IPv6 network output.
  • v4 in v6 output.
  • Reverse DNS address generation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sipcalc

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

You can also use apt command to install sipcalc.

sudo apt -y install sipcalc

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

sudo aptitude install sipcalc

Summary

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