corkscrew command not found

Introduction

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

corkscrew: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: corkscrew: command not found

Solutions to corkscrew: command not found

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

In Ubuntu corkscrew is provided by corkscrew package.

corkscrew is:

corkscrew is a simple tool to tunnel TCP connections through an HTTP proxy supporting the CONNECT method. It reads stdin and writes to stdout during the connection, just like netcat.

It can be used for instance to connect to an SSH server running on a remote 443 port through a strict HTTPS proxy.

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

sudo apt-get -y install corkscrew

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

You can also use apt command to install corkscrew.

sudo apt -y install corkscrew

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

sudo aptitude install corkscrew

Summary

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