webdis command not found

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

Introduction

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

webdis: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: webdis: command not found

In Ubuntu webdis is provided by webdis package.

webdis is:

Webdis is a simple web server providing HTTP interface to Redis. Some features include:

Support for GET and POST requests.
JSON output by default, optional JSONP parameter (?jsonp=myFunction).
Raw Redis 2.0 protocol output with .raw suffix
HTTP 1.1 pipelining (50,000 http requests per second on a desktop Linux machine.)
Restricted commands by IP range (CIDR subnet + mask) or HTTP Basic Auth, returning 403 errors.
Possible Redis authentication in the config file.
Pub/Sub using Transfer-Encoding: chunked, works with JSONP as well. Webdis can be used as a Comet server.
Custom Content-Type using a pre-defined file extension, or with ?type=some/thing.
URL-encoded parameters for binary data or slashes.
Logs, with a configurable verbosity.
Cross-origin XHR, if compiled with libevent2 (for OPTIONS support).
File upload with PUT.
With the JSON output, the return value of INFO is parsed and transformed into an object.

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

sudo apt-get -y install webdis

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

You can also use apt command to install webdis.

sudo apt -y install webdis

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

sudo aptitude install webdis

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