ucarp command not found

Introduction

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

ucarp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ucarp: command not found

Solutions to ucarp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ucarp is provided by ucarp package.

ucarp is:

UCARP allows a pair of hosts to share common virtual IP addresses in order to provide automatic fail-over. It is a portable user-land implementation of the secure and patent-free Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP, OpenBSD’s alternative to the VRRP).

Strong points of the CARP protocol are: very low overhead, cryptographically signed messages, interoperability between different operating systems and no need for any dedicated extra network link between redundant hosts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ucarp

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

You can also use apt command to install ucarp.

sudo apt -y install ucarp

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

sudo aptitude install ucarp

Summary

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