ethstatus command not found

Introduction

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

ethstatus: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ethstatus: command not found

Solutions to ethstatus: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ethstatus is provided by ethstatus package.

ethstatus is:

Ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis. It is similar to iptraf but is meant to run as a permanent console task to monitor the network load.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ethstatus

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

You can also use apt command to install ethstatus.

sudo apt -y install ethstatus

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

sudo aptitude install ethstatus

Summary

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