iptables-converter command not found

Introduction

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

iptables-converter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iptables-converter: command not found

Solutions to iptables-converter: command not found

How To Fix iptables-converter: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu iptables-converter is provided by iptables-converter package.

iptables-converter is:

iptables-converter: reads a file with iptables commands and converts these to an iptables-save readable format. To provide compatibility with “iptables-save -c” command zero packet and byte counters [0:0] are printed out. ip6tables-converter does the same for IPv6.

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

sudo apt-get -y install iptables-converter

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

You can also use apt command to install iptables-converter.

sudo apt -y install iptables-converter

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

sudo aptitude install iptables-converter

Summary

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