gnome-nettool command not found

Introduction

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

gnome-nettool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnome-nettool: command not found

Solutions to gnome-nettool: command not found

How To Fix gnome-nettool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnome-nettool is provided by gnome-nettool package.

gnome-nettool is:

GNOME Nettool is a network information tool which provides user interfaces for some of the most common command line network tools including: * ifconfig * ping * netstat * traceroute * port scanning * DNS lookup * finger * whois

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-nettool

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

You can also use apt command to install gnome-nettool.

sudo apt -y install gnome-nettool

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

sudo aptitude install gnome-nettool

Summary

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