cryptcat command not found

Introduction

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

cryptcat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cryptcat: command not found

Solutions to cryptcat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cryptcat is provided by cryptcat package.

cryptcat is:

Cryptcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol while encrypting the data being transmitted. It is designed to be a reliable “back-end” tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cryptcat

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

You can also use apt command to install cryptcat.

sudo apt -y install cryptcat

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

sudo aptitude install cryptcat

Summary

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