netstress command not found

Introduction

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

netstress: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: netstress: command not found

Solutions to netstress: command not found

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

In Ubuntu netstress is provided by netstress package.

netstress is:

netstress is a client/server utility designed to stress and benchmark network activity of a given ethernet device or path using simulated (random) real world data and packet sizes instead of fixed data and packet sizes.

Main features:

• Easy command line usage.
• Random packet sizes.
• Random data.
• Read, write, or read & write (default) testing and reporting.
• Benchmarking results.

netstress is useful for network tests across switches, routers and firewall systems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install netstress

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

You can also use apt command to install netstress.

sudo apt -y install netstress

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

sudo aptitude install netstress

Summary

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