nfacct command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix nfacct command not found error message

Introduction

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

nfacct: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nfacct: command not found

In Ubuntu nfacct is provided by nfacct package.

nfacct is:

This is the command line tool to create/retrieve/delete netfilter accounting objects.

Requires Linux kernel 3.3+ nfnetlink_acct subsystem.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nfacct

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

You can also use apt command to install nfacct.

sudo apt -y install nfacct

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

sudo aptitude install nfacct

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