ssh-ping command not found

Introduction

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

ssh-ping: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ssh-ping: command not found

Solutions to ssh-ping: command not found

How To Fix ssh-ping: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ssh-ping is provided by ssh-tools package.

ssh-tools is:

the following tools are included

• ssh-ping: check if host is reachable using ssh_config
• ssh-version: shows version of the SSH server you are connecting to
• ssh-diff: diff a file over SSH
• ssh-facts: get some facts about the remote system
• ssh-hostkeys: prints server host keys in several formats
• ssh-keyinfo: prints keys in several formats
• ssh-certinfo: shows validity and information of SSH certificates
• ssh-force-password: enforces password authentication

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

sudo apt-get -y install ssh-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install ssh-tools.

sudo apt -y install ssh-tools

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

sudo aptitude install ssh-tools

Summary

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