Overview:

When installing a recent version of Ubuntu 22.04.1 I opted to use the minimal install. When I got into the system I wanted to do a quick ping test to verify that its network was working only to be presented with an error that “Ping: command not found”.

I honestly didn’t know that Ping wasn’t just built-in as it was in almost all other distributions. In any case a quick little google search revealed the fix.

Install Ping on Ubuntu

1. Update your system package index (optional)
2. Install Ping

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install iputils-ping

Now go ahead and ping a website

ping celerium.org