squid-purge command not found

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

Introduction

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

squid-purge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: squid-purge: command not found

In Ubuntu squid-purge is provided by squid-purge package.

squid-purge is:

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

This package contains a small utility that can be used to manage the disk cache from the command line.

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

sudo apt-get -y install squid-purge

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

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

sudo apt -y install squid-purge

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

sudo aptitude install squid-purge

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