netkit-rsh command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix netkit-rsh command not found error message

Introduction

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

netkit-rsh: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: netkit-rsh: command not found

In Ubuntu netkit-rsh is provided by rsh-client package.

rsh-client is:

This package contains rsh, rcp and rlogin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rsh-client

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

You can also use apt command to install rsh-client.

sudo apt -y install rsh-client

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

sudo aptitude install rsh-client

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