atftp command not found

Introduction

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

atftp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: atftp: command not found

Solutions to atftp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu atftp is provided by atftp package.

atftp is:

Interactive client for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). Its usage is mainly for testing and debugging the atftp server. A TFTP client is usually implemented in UEFI/BIOS and bootstrap programs like pxelinux when booting from LAN. The atftp client also supports non-interactive invocation for easy use in scripts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install atftp

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

You can also use apt command to install atftp.

sudo apt -y install atftp

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

sudo aptitude install atftp

Summary

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