spamalyze command not found

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

Introduction

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

spamalyze: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spamalyze: command not found

Solutions to spamalyze: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spamalyze is provided by libnet-rblclient-perl package.

libnet-rblclient-perl is:

The Net::RBLClient module is used to discover what RBL’s are listing a particular IP address. It parallelizes requests for fast response.

An RBL, or Realtime Blackhole List, is a list of IP addresses meeting some criteria such as involvement in Unsolicited Bulk Email. Each RBL has its own criteria for addition and removal of addresses. If you want to block email or other traffic to/from your network based on one or more RBLs, you should carefully study the behavior of those RBLs before and during such blocking.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libnet-rblclient-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libnet-rblclient-perl.

sudo apt -y install libnet-rblclient-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libnet-rblclient-perl

Summary

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