gvpectrl command not found

Introduction

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

gvpectrl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gvpectrl: command not found

Solutions to gvpectrl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gvpectrl is provided by gvpe package.

gvpe is:

GVPE creates a virtual ethernet (broadcasts supported, any protocol that works with a normal ethernet should work with GVPE) by creating encrypted host-to-host tunnels between multiple endpoints.

Unlike other virtual private “network” solutions which merely create a single tunnel, GVPE creates a real network with multiple endpoints.

It is designed to be very simple and robust (cipher selection done at compiletime etc.), and easy to setup (only a single config file shared unmodified between all hosts).

VPN hosts can neither sniff nor fake packets, that is, you can use MAC-based filtering to ensure authenticity of packets even from member nodes.

GVPE can also be used to tunnel into some vpn network using a variety of protocols (raw IP, UDP, TCP, HTTPS-proxy-connect, ICMP and DNS). It is, however, primarily designed to sit on the gateway machines of company branches to connect them together.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gvpe

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

You can also use apt command to install gvpe.

sudo apt -y install gvpe

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

sudo aptitude install gvpe

Summary

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