etherape command not found

Introduction

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

etherape: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: etherape: command not found

Solutions to etherape: command not found

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

In Ubuntu etherape is provided by etherape package.

etherape is:

EtherApe is a graphical network monitor modeled after etherman. it displays network activity graphically, showing active hosts as circles of varying size, and traffic among them as lines of varying width.

It features link layer, ip and TCP modes, color-color coded protocols display, Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, ISDN, PPP and SLIP devices. It can filter traffic to be shown, and can read traffic from a file as well as live from the network.

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

sudo apt-get -y install etherape

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

You can also use apt command to install etherape.

sudo apt -y install etherape

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

sudo aptitude install etherape

Summary

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