Debian Bookworm (Standard Install) Ifconfig Problem

Ad_Augendae · 14 Feb 2024 at 12:41

I've have to admit I have never just picked up a copy of Debian from their site before. Other flavours yes. On install of new Flavours @ the cli I have a set of stuff IE essentials I like to install. Like: dnstop,iftop,iperf3,mtr etc.. you get idea but! ifconfig which I would get from net-tools doesn't want to work this time. I know I could do ip a, but I like what I like. Anyway all I seem to get from it now is -bash: ifconfig: command not found. I used sudo apt install by the way. Any thoughts welcome.

Ad_Augendae · 14 Feb 2024 at 13:06

It's in sbin path gives...
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
I think?

Ad_Augendae · 14 Feb 2024 at 13:10

I'll take a look thanks.

Ad_Augendae · 14 Feb 2024 at 14:03

It works using sudo ifconfig. if I use pi's or ubuntu I would just need to use ifconfig.

Ad_Augendae · 14 Feb 2024 at 14:04

~~and yes you was correct I just needed to run sudo apt update lol~~
Strike that I was at a pi console, so I would need to add paths or just use sudo is the best answer

Ad_Augendae · 14 Feb 2024 at 14:15

Well Debian asks you to setup a Administrator account then a user account so I guess it's a little way different to the normal flavours.

Ad_Augendae · 14 Feb 2024 at 19:39

opethdisciple said:
which ifconfig

/sbin/ifconfig -version
net-tools 2.10
which ifconfig
/usr/sbin/ifconfig

Edit: Which isn't part of the debian package so it just returned nothing.
On installing which I get this output...
which: no ifconfig in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games)

Ad_Augendae · 14 Feb 2024 at 20:42

Throrik said:
This has been expected behaviour in Debian for a long time now, as it's deprecated. You can either specify full path, or alias ifconfig to resolve the full path for you.

Yeah I can't stand the way ip adress looks, half arsed etc.
So I've just chucked export PATH="/usr/sbin:$PATH" in my profile for now!