ethtool command not found

Introduction

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

ethtool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ethtool: command not found

Solutions to ethtool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ethtool is provided by ethtool package.

ethtool is:

ethtool can be used to query and change settings such as speed, auto- negotiation and checksum offload on many network devices, especially Ethernet devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ethtool

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

You can also use apt command to install ethtool.

sudo apt -y install ethtool

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

sudo aptitude install ethtool

Summary

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