pnscan command not found

Introduction

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

pnscan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pnscan: command not found

Solutions to pnscan: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pnscan is provided by pnscan package.

pnscan is:

Pnscan is a multi threaded port scanner that can scan a large network very quickly. If does not have all the features that nmap have but is much faster.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pnscan

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

You can also use apt command to install pnscan.

sudo apt -y install pnscan

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

sudo aptitude install pnscan

Summary

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