transponder command not found

Introduction

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

transponder: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: transponder: command not found

Solutions to transponder: command not found

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

In Ubuntu transponder is provided by fair package.

fair is:

Fair is a system for implementing load balancers; it consists of two daemons: carrousel and transponder. Carrousel, which performs load balancing services, typically runs on a load balancer; transponder runs on the servers.

Fair understands network topologies where one node is reachable via more than one IP address; this allows not only the servers, but the network to be redundant as well. This distinguishes fair from other load balancers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fair

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

You can also use apt command to install fair.

sudo apt -y install fair

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

sudo aptitude install fair

Summary

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