netscript command not found

Introduction

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

netscript: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: netscript: command not found

Solutions to netscript: command not found

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

In Ubuntu netscript is provided by netscript-ipfilter package.

netscript-ipfilter is:

This is a cut down version of netscript-2.4, which is just the ipfilter iptables/ip6tables management implementation. This provides iptables and ip6tables management with a cyclic backup history, via iptables-restore and iptables-save.

This is designed to work with ifupdown, and is better than iptables-persistent as you can roll back filter changes if you have made a mistake.

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

sudo apt-get -y install netscript-ipfilter

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

You can also use apt command to install netscript-ipfilter.

sudo apt -y install netscript-ipfilter

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

sudo aptitude install netscript-ipfilter

Summary

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