There seems to be one or more kernel options to enable capabilities: (mini) [~] apt install iputils-ping Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: iputils-ping 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/50.0 kB of archives. After this operation, 113 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package iputils-ping. (Reading database ... 18447 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../iputils-ping_3%3a20211215-1_arm64.deb ... Unpacking iputils-ping (3:20211215-1) ... Setting up iputils-ping (3:20211215-1) ... Failed to set capabilities on file `/bin/ping' (Operation not supported) The value of the capability argument is not permitted for a file. Or the file is not a regular (non-symlink) file Setcap failed on /bin/ping, falling back to setuid