certspotter command not found

Introduction

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

certspotter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: certspotter: command not found

Solutions to certspotter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu certspotter is provided by certspotter package.

certspotter is:

Cert Spotter is a Certificate Transparency log monitor from SSLMate that alerts you when a SSL/TLS certificate is issued for one of your domains. Cert Spotter is easier than other open source CT monitors, since it does not require a database. It’s also more robust, since it uses a special certificate parser that ensures it won’t miss certificates.

Cert Spotter is also available as a hosted service by SSLMate, https://sslmate.com/certspotter

You can use Cert Spotter to detect:

• Certificates issued to attackers who have compromised a certificate authority and want to impersonate your site.
• Certificates issued to attackers who are using your infrastructure to serve malware.
• Certificates issued in violation of your corporate policy or outside of your centralized certificate procurement process.
• Certificates issued to your infrastructure providers without your consent.

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

sudo apt-get -y install certspotter

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

You can also use apt command to install certspotter.

sudo apt -y install certspotter

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

sudo aptitude install certspotter

Summary

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