arp-scan command not found

Introduction

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

arp-scan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: arp-scan: command not found

Solutions to arp-scan: command not found

How To Fix arp-scan: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu arp-scan is provided by arp-scan package.

arp-scan is:

arp-scan is a command-line tool that uses the ARP protocol to discover and fingerprint IP hosts on the local network. It is available for Linux and BSD under the GPL licence

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

sudo apt-get -y install arp-scan

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

You can also use apt command to install arp-scan.

sudo apt -y install arp-scan

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

sudo aptitude install arp-scan

Summary

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