dnstop command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dnstop command not found error message

Introduction

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

dnstop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dnstop: command not found

Solutions to dnstop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dnstop is provided by dnstop package.

dnstop is:

dnstop is a console tool to analyze and display various tables of DNS traffic. Currently dnstop displays tables of (among others):

  • Source IP addresses
  • Destination IP addresses
  • Query types
  • Top level domains
  • Second level domains

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

sudo apt-get -y install dnstop

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

You can also use apt command to install dnstop.

sudo apt -y install dnstop

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

sudo aptitude install dnstop

Summary

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