etherpuppet command not found

Introduction

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

etherpuppet: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: etherpuppet: command not found

Solutions to etherpuppet: command not found

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

In Ubuntu etherpuppet is provided by etherpuppet package.

etherpuppet is:

Etherpuppet is a small program that will create a virtual interface (TUN/TAP) on one machine from the ethernet interface of another machine through a TCP connection. Everything seen by the real interface will be seen by the virtual one. Everything sent to the virtual interface will be emitted by the real one.

It has been designed because one often has a small machine as their Internet gateway, and sometimes want to run some big applications that need raw access to this interface, for sniffing (Wireshark, etc.) or for crafting packets that do not survive being reassembled, translated, routed, etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install etherpuppet

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

You can also use apt command to install etherpuppet.

sudo apt -y install etherpuppet

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

sudo aptitude install etherpuppet

Summary

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