bpfmon command not found

Introduction

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

bpfmon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bpfmon: command not found

Solutions to bpfmon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bpfmon is provided by bpfmon package.

bpfmon is:

While tcpdump shows what packets are going through the network, bpfmon will show how much in terms of bytes per second and packets per second in a nice pseudo-graphical terminal interface.

bpfmon also supports monitoring an iptables rule that is selected by command line option or selected from a menu.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bpfmon

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

You can also use apt command to install bpfmon.

sudo apt -y install bpfmon

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

sudo aptitude install bpfmon

Summary

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