guessnet command not found

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

Introduction

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

guessnet: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: guessnet: command not found

Solutions to guessnet: command not found

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

In Ubuntu guessnet is provided by guessnet package.

guessnet is:

Guessnet is a non-aggressive network detection tool to use when moving a machine among networks which don’t necessarily provide DHCP.

Guessnet takes in input a list of candidate network profiles, each of which includes a test description; then it runs all the tests in parallel and prints the name of the profile whose test was the first one to succeed.

Available tests are:

  • ARP probes to check for known hosts in the network
  • link beat check, to check if the interface is connected to anything
  • PPPOE check to see if there is a concentrator accessible via PPPOE
  • Checks provided by custom arbitrary scripts.

Guessnet can be used in either native mode or “ifupdown mode”. In the latter case guessnet integrates nicely with ifupdown as a “mapping script”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install guessnet

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

You can also use apt command to install guessnet.

sudo apt -y install guessnet

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

sudo aptitude install guessnet

Summary

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