slinkwatch command not found

Introduction

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

slinkwatch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: slinkwatch: command not found

Solutions to slinkwatch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu slinkwatch is provided by slinkwatch package.

slinkwatch is:

slinkwatch is the Suricata Link Watcher, a tool to dynamically maintain interface entries in Suricata’s configuration file, depending on what network interfaces are connected. It is meant to ease deployment of identical sensor installations at many heterogenous sites, allowing to make full use of the sensor resources in the light of varying monitoring volume.

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

sudo apt-get -y install slinkwatch

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

You can also use apt command to install slinkwatch.

sudo apt -y install slinkwatch

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

sudo aptitude install slinkwatch

Summary

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