subnetcalc command not found

Introduction

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

subnetcalc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: subnetcalc: command not found

Solutions to subnetcalc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu subnetcalc is provided by subnetcalc package.

subnetcalc is:

SubNetCalc is an IPv4/IPv6 subnet address calculator. For given IPv4 or IPv6 address and netmask or prefix length, it calculates network address, broadcast address, maximum number of hosts and host address range. The output is colourized for better readability (e.g. network part, host part). Also, it prints the addresses in binary format for better understandability. Furthermore, it can identify the address type (e.g. multicast, unique local, site local, etc.) and extract additional information from the address (e.g. type, scope, interface ID, etc.). Finally, it can generate IPv6 unique local prefixes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install subnetcalc

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

You can also use apt command to install subnetcalc.

sudo apt -y install subnetcalc

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

sudo aptitude install subnetcalc

Summary

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