linssid command not found

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

Introduction

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

linssid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: linssid: command not found

Solutions to linssid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu linssid is provided by linssid package.

linssid is:

LinSSID is a graphical program that displays locally receivable 802.11 wireless attach points and ad hoc networks.

A table is displayed with various parameters such as MAC address, channel, and signal strength. Graphs are also displayed with signal strength by channel and signal strength over time.

LinSSID is graphically and functionally similar to inSSIDer (for Microsoft Windows) and Wi-Fi Analyzer (for Android).

LinSSID can be used to measure the local performance or to search for an interference free channel to be set in a wireless router (access point or AP). The wireless established link won’t be affected by these operations because LinSSID needn’t set the monitor mode in network interface.

Some features:

Table of locally receivable attach points with many columns of different information and sortable and movable columns.
Adjustable speed, real-time update.
Graphs of signal strength by channel and over time.
AP bandwidth displayed.
Works on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels.

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

sudo apt-get -y install linssid

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

You can also use apt command to install linssid.

sudo apt -y install linssid

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

sudo aptitude install linssid

Summary

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