iftop command not found

Introduction

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

iftop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iftop: command not found

Solutions to iftop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu iftop is provided by iftop package.

iftop is:

iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question “Why is my Internet link so slow?”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install iftop

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

You can also use apt command to install iftop.

sudo apt -y install iftop

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

sudo aptitude install iftop

Summary

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