Depending on your Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Server/Desktop installation your system might not come with the ping
command pre-installed. This is especially the case for docker containers. Any attempt to ping a remote system will result in the following error:
$ ping linuxconfig.org bash: ping: command not found
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to install
ping
command on Ubuntu 22.04

Category | Requirements, Conventions or Software Version Used |
---|---|
System | Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish |
Software | iputils-ping |
Other | Privileged access to your Linux system as root or via the sudo command. |
Conventions |
# – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command$ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user |
Install ping command on Ubuntu 22.04 step by step instructions
- Start by opening a command line terminal and entering the following command to update the package repository index.
$ sudo apt update
- Install the missing
ping
command which is available in theiputils-ping
package on Ubuntu 22.04.$ sudo apt install iputils-ping
- The missing
ping
command should now be installed and ready to use:$ which ping /usr/bin/ping
Try pinging a remote host:
$ ping -c 1 linuxconfig.org PING linuxconfig.org (104.26.3.13) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 104.26.3.13 (104.26.3.13): icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=12.1 ms --- linuxconfig.org ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 12.122/12.122/12.122/0.000 ms
Closing Thoughts
In this tutorial, we saw how to install the missing ping
command on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux through use of the iputils-ping
package. This software can easily be installed from the default Ubuntu repository and will enable ping
command on your system. The ping
command remains one of the best ways to quickly troubleshoot connectivity problems between your Ubuntu computer and a remote website, server, or other type of host.