mactelnetd command not found

Introduction

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

mactelnetd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mactelnetd: command not found

Solutions to mactelnetd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mactelnetd is provided by mactelnet-server package.

mactelnet-server is:

This is a telnet daemon that uses Mikrotiks proprietary MAC-Telnet protocol. You will be enabled to “mac-telnet” from Linux machines with mactelnet-client or Mikrotik RouterOS devices which already has tools for this.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mactelnet-server

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

You can also use apt command to install mactelnet-server.

sudo apt -y install mactelnet-server

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

sudo aptitude install mactelnet-server

Summary

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