mibdump command not found

Introduction

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

mibdump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mibdump: command not found

Solutions to mibdump: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mibdump is provided by python3-pysmi package.

python3-pysmi is:

PySMI is a pure-Python implementation of SNMP SMI MIB parser. This tool is designed to turn ASN.1 MIBs into various formats. As of this moment, JSON and pysnmp modules can be generated from ASN.1 MIBs.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pysmi

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-pysmi.

sudo apt -y install python3-pysmi

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pysmi

Summary

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