bpftool command not found

Introduction

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

bpftool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bpftool: command not found

Solutions to bpftool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bpftool is provided by linux-tools-common package.

linux-tools-common is:

This package provides the architecture independent parts for kernel version locked tools (such as perf and x86_energy_perf_policy) for version 5.15.0.

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

sudo apt-get -y install linux-tools-common

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

You can also use apt command to install linux-tools-common.

sudo apt -y install linux-tools-common

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

sudo aptitude install linux-tools-common

Summary

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