etterlog command not found

Introduction

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

etterlog: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: etterlog: command not found

Solutions to etterlog: command not found

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

In Ubuntu etterlog is provided by ettercap-text-only package.

ettercap-text-only is:

Ettercap supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even encrypted ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis.

Data injection in an established connection and filtering (substitute or drop a packet) on the fly is also possible, keeping the connection synchronized.

Many sniffing modes are implemented, for a powerful and complete sniffing suite. It is possible to sniff in four modes: IP Based, MAC Based, ARP Based (full-duplex) and PublicARP Based (half-duplex).

Ettercap also has the ability to detect a switched LAN, and to use OS fingerprints (active or passive) to find the geometry of the LAN.

This package contains the ettercap text-mode-only executable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ettercap-text-only

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

You can also use apt command to install ettercap-text-only.

sudo apt -y install ettercap-text-only

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

sudo aptitude install ettercap-text-only

Summary

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