ndptool command not found

Introduction

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

ndptool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ndptool: command not found

Solutions to ndptool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ndptool is provided by libndp-tools package.

libndp-tools is:

libndp is a library for the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP). It contains functions for building and parsing NDP messages, and provides a high-level interface for sending and receiving NDP messages on a network interface.

This package contains a tool named ndptool for sending and receiving NDP messages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libndp-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libndp-tools.

sudo apt -y install libndp-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libndp-tools

Summary

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