netread command not found

Introduction

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

netread: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: netread: command not found

Solutions to netread: command not found

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

In Ubuntu netread is provided by netrw package.

netrw is:

Netrw is a simple (but powerful) tool for transporting data over the internet. Its main purpose is to simplify and speed up file transfers to hosts without an FTP server. It can also be used for uploading data to some other user. It is something like one-way netcat (nc) with some nice features concerning data transfers. Netrw can compute and check message digest (MD5, SHA-1, and some others) of all the data being transferred, it can also print information on progress and average speed. At the end it sums up the transfer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install netrw

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

You can also use apt command to install netrw.

sudo apt -y install netrw

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

sudo aptitude install netrw

Summary

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