bittwist command not found

Introduction

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

bittwist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bittwist: command not found

Solutions to bittwist: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bittwist is provided by bittwist package.

bittwist is:

bittwist (or Bit-Twist) is designed to complement tcpdump, which by itself has done a great job in capturing network traffic. Bit-Twist can regenerate the captured traffic onto a live network (the packets are generated from tcpdump trace file, generating a .pcap file).

Bit-Twist also comes with a comprehensive trace file editor to allow one to change the contents of a trace file (bittwiste).

Generally, a packet generator is useful in simulating networking traffic or scenario, testing firewall, IDS, and IPS, and troubleshooting various network problems.

The Bit-Twist features are:

* runs on Mac OS X (and *BSD), Linux, and Windows;
* send multiple trace files at a time;
* send packets at a specific speed or line rate in Mbps;
* comprehensive trace file editor with control over most fields in
  Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP headers with automatic header
  checksum correction;
* append user payload to existing packets after a specific header;
* select a specific range of packets and save them in another trace file;
* highly scriptable - with proper manipulation you can turn Bit-Twist
  into an extremely flexible packet generator tool;
* if you are teaching Computer Networks classes, you may find Bit-Twist
  useful as a practical teaching material. It gives your students a
  hands-on experience to learn various networking protocols etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bittwist

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

You can also use apt command to install bittwist.

sudo apt -y install bittwist

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

sudo aptitude install bittwist

Summary

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