smixlate command not found

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

Introduction

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

smixlate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smixlate: command not found

Solutions to smixlate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smixlate is provided by smitools package.

smitools is:

This package includes the following tools:

  • smidiff: check differences between a pair of SMI or SPPI modules
  • smiquery: query single information from SMI MIB modules
  • smilint: syntax and semantic checks of SMIv1/v2 and SPPI modules
  • smicache: caching method for use with libsmi
  • smixlate: translate SMI/SPPI identifiers
  • smidump: dump SMI or SPPI modules in various formats

You may also be interested by smistrip which is provided by smistrip package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install smitools

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

You can also use apt command to install smitools.

sudo apt -y install smitools

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

sudo aptitude install smitools

Summary

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