extractvectors command not found

Introduction

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

extractvectors: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: extractvectors: command not found

Solutions to extractvectors: command not found

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

In Ubuntu extractvectors is provided by netperfmeter package.

netperfmeter is:

NetPerfMeter is a network performance meter for the UDP, TCP, MPTCP, SCTP and DCCP transport protocols over IPv4 and IPv6. It simultaneously transmits bidirectional flows to an endpoint and measures the resulting flow bandwidths and QoS. The results are written as vector and scalar files. The vector files can e.g. be used to create plots of the results.

This package contains the measurement program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install netperfmeter

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

You can also use apt command to install netperfmeter.

sudo apt -y install netperfmeter

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

sudo aptitude install netperfmeter

Summary

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