netmate command not found

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

Introduction

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

netmate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: netmate: command not found

Solutions to netmate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu netmate is provided by netmate package.

netmate is:

netmate was inspired in netdude[1] (dead) and can be used to learn and teach about TCP/IP protocols. It is a GTK+ program that shows lines selected from files in pcap style (generated by tcpdump and Wireshark or another code based in libpcap) as 32-bit headers, identical to the used by RFCs.

This program works with Ethernet, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, ICMP, ICMP6, NDP and others.

[1] http://netdude.sourceforge.net

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

sudo apt-get -y install netmate

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

You can also use apt command to install netmate.

sudo apt -y install netmate

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

sudo aptitude install netmate

Summary

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