encapsulate command not found

Introduction

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

encapsulate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: encapsulate: command not found

Solutions to encapsulate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu encapsulate is provided by netpipes package.

netpipes is:

The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts. It can also simplify client/server code by allowing the programmer to skip all the tedious programming bits related to sockets and concentrate on writing a filter, or other service.

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

sudo apt-get -y install netpipes

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

You can also use apt command to install netpipes.

sudo apt -y install netpipes

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

sudo aptitude install netpipes

Summary

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