atftpd command not found

Introduction

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

atftpd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: atftpd: command not found

Solutions to atftpd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu atftpd is provided by atftpd package.

atftpd is:

Multi-threaded TFTP server implementing all options (option extension and multicast) as specified in RFC1350, RFC2090, RFC2347, RFC2348 and RFC2349. Atftpd also supports multicast protocol known as mtftp, defined in the PXE specification. The server is socket activated by default but supports being started from inetd(8) as well as in daemon mode using init scripts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install atftpd

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

You can also use apt command to install atftpd.

sudo apt -y install atftpd

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

sudo aptitude install atftpd

Summary

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