obexput command not found

Introduction

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

obexput: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: obexput: command not found

Solutions to obexput: command not found

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

In Ubuntu obexput is provided by obexftp package.

obexftp is:

OBEX, the OBject EXchange protocol, can best be described as binary HTTP. OBEX is optimized for ad-hoc links and can be used to exchange all kind of objects like files, pictures, calendar entries (vCal) and business cards (vCard) over bluetooth, IrDA, USB and serial cable links.

This is the command line front-end that fully uses the capabilities of libobexftp.

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

sudo apt-get -y install obexftp

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

You can also use apt command to install obexftp.

sudo apt -y install obexftp

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

sudo aptitude install obexftp

Summary

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