squid command not found

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

Introduction

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

squid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: squid: command not found

In Ubuntu squid is provided by squid-openssl package.

squid-openssl is:

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, ICY and HTTP data objects.

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

sudo apt-get -y install squid-openssl

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

You can also use apt command to install squid-openssl.

sudo apt -y install squid-openssl

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

sudo aptitude install squid-openssl

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