softflowd command not found

Introduction

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

softflowd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: softflowd: command not found

Solutions to softflowd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu softflowd is provided by softflowd package.

softflowd is:

Softflowd is a flow-based network traffic anaylser capable of Cisco Netflow data export. Softflowd semi-statefully tracks traffic flows recorded by listening on a network interface or by reading a packet capture file. These flows may be reported via NetFlow to a collecting host or summarised within softflowd itself.

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

sudo apt-get -y install softflowd

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

You can also use apt command to install softflowd.

sudo apt -y install softflowd

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

sudo aptitude install softflowd

Summary

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