goldeneye command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix goldeneye command not found error message

Introduction

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

goldeneye: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: goldeneye: command not found

Solutions to goldeneye: command not found

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

In Ubuntu goldeneye is provided by goldeneye package.

goldeneye is:

GoldenEye is a HTTP DoS Test Tool. This tool can be used to test if a site is susceptible to Deny of Service (DoS) attacks. Is possible to open several parallel connections against a URL to check if the web server can be compromised.

The program tests the security in networks and uses ‘HTTP Keep Alive

NoCache’ as attack vector.

This package is useful for pentesters.

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

sudo apt-get -y install goldeneye

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

You can also use apt command to install goldeneye.

sudo apt -y install goldeneye

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

sudo aptitude install goldeneye

Summary

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