ebtables-legacy-restore command not found

Introduction

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

ebtables-legacy-restore: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ebtables-legacy-restore: command not found

Solutions to ebtables-legacy-restore: command not found

How To Fix ebtables-legacy-restore: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ebtables-legacy-restore is provided by ebtables package.

ebtables is:

Ebtables is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of Ethernet frame rules in the Linux kernel. It is analogous to iptables, but operates at the MAC layer rather than the IP layer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ebtables

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

You can also use apt command to install ebtables.

sudo apt -y install ebtables

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

sudo aptitude install ebtables

Summary

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