obfs-local command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix obfs-local command not found error message

Introduction

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

obfs-local: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: obfs-local: command not found

In Ubuntu obfs-local is provided by simple-obfs package.

simple-obfs is:

Simple-obfs is a simple obfusacting tool, designed as plugin server/client of shadowsocks-libev.

Simple-obfs is written in pure C and takes advantage of libev to achieve both high performance and low resource consumption.

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

sudo apt-get -y install simple-obfs

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

You can also use apt command to install simple-obfs.

sudo apt -y install simple-obfs

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

sudo aptitude install simple-obfs

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