gssdp-device-sniffer command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gssdp-device-sniffer command not found error message

Introduction

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

gssdp-device-sniffer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gssdp-device-sniffer: command not found

In Ubuntu gssdp-device-sniffer is provided by gssdp-tools package.

gssdp-tools is:

A GObject-based API for doing SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) transparently.

This package contains some tools, such as gssdp-device-sniffer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gssdp-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install gssdp-tools.

sudo apt -y install gssdp-tools

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

sudo aptitude install gssdp-tools

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