dumbnet command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
dumbnet: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: dumbnet: command not found
Solutions to dumbnet: command not found
How To Fix dumbnet: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu dumbnet is provided by libdumbnet-dev package.
libdumbnet-dev is:
libdumbnet provides a simplified, portable interface to several low-level networking routines, including
- network address manipulation
- kernel arp(4) cache and route(4) table lookup and manipulation
- network firewalling (Ip filter, ipfw, ipchains, pdf, …)
- network interface lookup and manipulation
- raw IP packet and Ethernet frame transmission
libdumbnet is known as libdnet in other distributions, but was renamed in Debian in favour of the older DECnet library ’libdnet'.
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 libdumbnet-dev
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install libdumbnet-dev.
sudo apt -y install libdumbnet-dev
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install libdumbnet-dev
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix dumbnet command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.