nicstat command not found

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

Introduction

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

nicstat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nicstat: command not found

Solutions to nicstat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nicstat is provided by nicstat package.

nicstat is:

nicstat is to network interfaces as iostat is to disks, or prstat is to processes. It is designed as a much better version of “netstat -i”. Its differences include:

  • Reports bytes in & out as well as packets.
  • Normalizes these values to per-second rates.
  • Reports on all interfaces (while iterating)
  • Reports Utilization (rough calculation as of now)
  • Reports Saturation (also rough)
  • Prefixes statistics with the current time

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

sudo apt-get -y install nicstat

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

You can also use apt command to install nicstat.

sudo apt -y install nicstat

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

sudo aptitude install nicstat

Summary

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