arpd command not found

Introduction

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

arpd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: arpd: command not found

Solutions to arpd: command not found

How To Fix arpd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu arpd is provided by iproute2 package.

iproute2 is:

The iproute2 suite is a collection of utilities for networking and traffic control.

These tools communicate with the Linux kernel via the (rt)netlink interface, providing advanced features not available through the legacy net-tools commands ‘ifconfig’ and ‘route’.

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

sudo apt-get -y install iproute2

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

You can also use apt command to install iproute2.

sudo apt -y install iproute2

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

sudo aptitude install iproute2

Summary

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