ent command not found

Introduction

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

ent: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ent: command not found

Solutions to ent: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ent is provided by ent package.

ent is:

This program applies various tests to sequences of bytes stored in files and reports the results of those tests. The program is useful for those evaluating pseudorandom number generators for encryption and statistical sampling applications, compression algorithms, and other applications where the information density of a file is of interest.

Original Homepage: http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/ (Now maintained primarily in Debian.)

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

sudo apt-get -y install ent

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

You can also use apt command to install ent.

sudo apt -y install ent

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

sudo aptitude install ent

Summary

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