ostinato command not found

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

Introduction

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

ostinato: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ostinato: command not found

Solutions to ostinato: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ostinato is provided by ostinato package.

ostinato is:

Ostinato is an open-source, cross-platform network packet crafter/traffic generator and analyzer with a friendly GUI. Craft and send packets of several streams with different protocols at different rates. Ostinato aims to be “Wireshark in Reverse” and become complementary to Wireshark.

Features:

  • Open, edit, replay and save PCAP files
  • Support for the most common standard protocols
    • Ethernet/802.3/LLC SNAP
    • VLAN (with QinQ)
    • ARP, IPv4, IPv6, IP-in-IP IP Tunnelling (6over4, 4over6, 4over4, 6over6)
    • TCP, UDP, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, IGMP, MLD
    • Any text based protocol (HTTP, SIP, RTSP, NNTP etc.)
  • Modify any field of any protocol (some protocols allow changing packet fields with every packet at run time e.g. changing IP/MAC addresses)
  • User provided Hex Dump - specify some or all bytes in a packet
  • User defined script to substitute for an unimplemented protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)
  • Stack protocols in any arbitrary order
  • Create and configure multiple streams
  • Configure stream rates, bursts, no. of packets
  • Single client can control and configure multiple ports on multiple computers generating traffic
  • Exclusive control of a port to prevent the OS from sending stray packets provides a controlled testing environment
  • Statistics Window shows real time port receive/transmit statistics and rates
  • Capture packets and view them (needs Wireshark)
  • Framework to add new protocol builders easily

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

sudo apt-get -y install ostinato

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

You can also use apt command to install ostinato.

sudo apt -y install ostinato

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

sudo aptitude install ostinato

Summary

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