flowtop command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
flowtop: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: flowtop: command not found
Solutions to flowtop: command not found
How To Fix flowtop: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu flowtop is provided by netsniff-ng package.
netsniff-ng is:
netsniff-ng is a high performance Linux network sniffer for packet inspection. It can be used for protocol analysis, reverse engineering or network debugging. The gain of performance is reached by ‘zero-copy’ mechanisms, so that the kernel does not need to copy packets from kernelspace to userspace.
netsniff-ng toolkit currently consists of the following utilities:
- netsniff-ng: a zero-copy packet analyzer, pcap capturing/replaying tool
- trafgen: a multithreaded low-level zero-copy network packet generator
- mausezahn: high-level packet generator for appliances with Cisco-CLI
- ifpps: a top-like kernel networking and system statistics tool
- curvetun: a lightweight curve25519-based multiuser IP tunnel
- astraceroute: an autonomous system trace route and DPI testing utility
- flowtop: a top-like netfilter connection tracking tool
- bpfc: a [seccomp-]BPF (Berkeley packet filter) compiler, JIT disassembler
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install netsniff-ng
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install netsniff-ng.
sudo apt -y install netsniff-ng
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install netsniff-ng
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix flowtop command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.