newnet command not found

Introduction

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

newnet: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: newnet: command not found

Solutions to newnet: command not found

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

In Ubuntu newnet is provided by newpid package.

newpid is:

newpid is a simple suid wrapper around clone(CLONE_NEWPID) that launches a command in a new PID namespace. Optionally it can also use CLONE_NEWNET to request a new network namespace.

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

sudo apt-get -y install newpid

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

You can also use apt command to install newpid.

sudo apt -y install newpid

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

sudo aptitude install newpid

Summary

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