hpsockd command not found

Introduction

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

hpsockd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hpsockd: command not found

Solutions to hpsockd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hpsockd is provided by hpsockd package.

hpsockd is:

Hpsockd is yet-another SOCKS server, with both version 5 (RFC1928 and others) as well as version 4 support, originally written at Hewlett-Packard Company.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hpsockd

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

You can also use apt command to install hpsockd.

sudo apt -y install hpsockd

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

sudo aptitude install hpsockd

Summary

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