daq-modules-config command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix daq-modules-config command not found error message

Introduction

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

daq-modules-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: daq-modules-config: command not found

In Ubuntu daq-modules-config is provided by libdaq-dev package.

libdaq-dev is:

DAQ is a library that introduces an abstraction layer to PCAP functions facilitation operation in a variety of hardware and software interfaces.

It was written for Snort but it may be useful to other packet processing applicatons.

This package contains the static library and the C header files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdaq-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libdaq-dev.

sudo apt -y install libdaq-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libdaq-dev

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