sniffit command not found

Introduction

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

sniffit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sniffit: command not found

Solutions to sniffit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sniffit is provided by sniffit package.

sniffit is:

Sniffit is a packet sniffer for TCP/UDP/ICMP packets over IPv4. It is able to give you a very detailed technical info on these packets, as SEQ, ACK, TTL, Window, etc. The packet contents also can be viewed, in different formats (hex or plain text, etc.).

Sniffit is based in libpcap and is useful when learning about computer networks and their security.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sniffit

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

You can also use apt command to install sniffit.

sudo apt -y install sniffit

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

sudo aptitude install sniffit

Summary

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