inspectsocks command not found

Introduction

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

inspectsocks: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: inspectsocks: command not found

Solutions to inspectsocks: command not found

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

In Ubuntu inspectsocks is provided by tsocks package.

tsocks is:

tsocks provides transparent network access through a SOCKS version 4 or 5 proxy (usually on a firewall). tsocks intercepts the calls applications make to establish TCP connections and transparently proxies them as necessary. This allows existing applications to use SOCKS without recompilation or modification.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tsocks

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

You can also use apt command to install tsocks.

sudo apt -y install tsocks

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

sudo aptitude install tsocks

Summary

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