parsero command not found

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

Introduction

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

parsero: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: parsero: command not found

Solutions to parsero: command not found

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

In Ubuntu parsero is provided by parsero package.

parsero is:

Parsero is a free script written in Python which reads the Robots.txt file of a web server through the network and looks at the Disallow entries. The Disallow entries tell the search engines what directories or files hosted on a web server mustn’t be indexed. For example, “Disallow: /portal/login” means that the content on www.example.com/portal/login it’s not allowed to be indexed by crawlers like Google, Bing, Yahoo… This is the way the administrator have to not share sensitive or private information with the search engines.

Parsero is useful for pentesters, ethical hackers and forensics experts. It also can be used for security tests.

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

sudo apt-get -y install parsero

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

You can also use apt command to install parsero.

sudo apt -y install parsero

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

sudo aptitude install parsero

Summary

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