p0f command not found

Introduction

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

p0f: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: p0f: command not found

Solutions to p0f: command not found

How To Fix p0f: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu p0f is provided by p0f package.

p0f is:

p0f performs passive OS detection based on SYN packets. Unlike nmap and queso, p0f does recognition without sending any data. Additionally, it is able to determine the distance to the remote host, and can be used to determine the structure of a foreign or local network. When running on the gateway of a network it is able to gather huge amounts of data and provide useful statistics. On a user-end computer it could be used as powerful IDS add-on. p0f supports full tcpdump-style filtering expressions, and has an extensible and detailed fingerprinting database.

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

sudo apt-get -y install p0f

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

You can also use apt command to install p0f.

sudo apt -y install p0f

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

sudo aptitude install p0f

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix p0f command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.