prads-asset-report command not found

Introduction

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

prads-asset-report: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prads-asset-report: command not found

Solutions to prads-asset-report: command not found

How To Fix prads-asset-report: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu prads-asset-report is provided by prads package.

prads is:

PRADS is a Passive Real-time Asset Detection System.

PRADS employs digital fingerprints to recognize services on the wire, and can be used to map your network and monitor for changes in real time.

Real-time passive traffic analysis will also let you detect assets that are just connected to the network for a short period of time, since PRADS can glean useful information from every packet.

PRADS aims to be the one-stop-shop for passive asset detection, and currently does MAC lookups, TCP and UDP OS fingerprinting as well as client and service application matching and a connection state table. Various output plugins include logfile and FIFO and make PRADS a useful replacement for p0f, pads and sancp.

PRADS was built from the ground up for a small footprint and modern networks with IPv6 and gigabits of throughput.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prads

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

You can also use apt command to install prads.

sudo apt -y install prads

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

sudo aptitude install prads

Summary

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