suricata-update command not found

Introduction

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

suricata-update: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: suricata-update: command not found

Solutions to suricata-update: command not found

How To Fix suricata-update: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu suricata-update is provided by suricata-update package.

suricata-update is:

suricata-update is a tool to easily and reliably fetch and update rule sets for the Suricata IDS/IPS system. It queries external upstream rule sources such as Emerging Threat/Proofpoint’s rule sets and others, taking into account user accounts and preferences, and merges all rules into one file to be loaded into Suricata.

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

sudo apt-get -y install suricata-update

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

You can also use apt command to install suricata-update.

sudo apt -y install suricata-update

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

sudo aptitude install suricata-update

Summary

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