vuls command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix vuls command not found error message

Introduction

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

vuls: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vuls: command not found

Solutions to vuls: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vuls is provided by vuls package.

vuls is:

This is scanner which checks the package inventory against a local copy of the National Vunerabilities Database (NVD) of vulnerabilities according to their CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) indentifiers. The backends supports a couple of OSs (Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux). Scanning servers over the network is possible.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vuls

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

You can also use apt command to install vuls.

sudo apt -y install vuls

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

sudo aptitude install vuls

Summary

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