mini-inetd command not found

Introduction

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

mini-inetd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mini-inetd: command not found

Solutions to mini-inetd: command not found

How To Fix mini-inetd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mini-inetd is provided by tcputils package.

tcputils is:

This is a collection of programs to facilitate TCP programming in shell-scripts. There is also a small library which makes it somewhat easier to create TCP/IP sockets.

The programs included in this release are:

 mini-inetd  - small TCP/IP connection dispatcher
 tcpbug      - TCP/IP connection bugging device
 tcpconnect  - general TCP/IP client
 tcplisten   - general TCP/IP server
 getpeername - get name of connected TCP/IP peer

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

sudo apt-get -y install tcputils

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

You can also use apt command to install tcputils.

sudo apt -y install tcputils

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

sudo aptitude install tcputils

Summary

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