netsend command not found

Introduction

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

netsend: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: netsend: command not found

Solutions to netsend: command not found

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

In Ubuntu netsend is provided by netsend package.

netsend is:

Netsend transmits and receives files. It is highly configurable and offers the transport protocols TCP, DCCP, UDP, UDPLITE and SCTP using either IPv4 or IPv6 on the network layer. The cluster protocol TIPC is also supported.

The user is able to tweak various options of the Linux network stack to gain maximum performance. While this is not needed for trivial filetransfer, it is valuable for network protocol performance testing.

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

sudo apt-get -y install netsend

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

You can also use apt command to install netsend.

sudo apt -y install netsend

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

sudo aptitude install netsend

Summary

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