prads command not found

Introduction

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

prads: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prads: command not found

Solutions to prads: command not found

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

In Ubuntu prads is provided by prads package.

prads is:

PRADS is a Passive Real-time Asset Detection System.

PRADS employs digital fingerprints to recognize services on the wire, and can be used to map your network and monitor for changes in real time.

Real-time passive traffic analysis will also let you detect assets that are just connected to the network for a short period of time, since PRADS can glean useful information from every packet.

PRADS aims to be the one-stop-shop for passive asset detection, and currently does MAC lookups, TCP and UDP OS fingerprinting as well as client and service application matching and a connection state table. Various output plugins include logfile and FIFO and make PRADS a useful replacement for p0f, pads and sancp.

PRADS was built from the ground up for a small footprint and modern networks with IPv6 and gigabits of throughput.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prads

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

You can also use apt command to install prads.

sudo apt -y install prads

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

sudo aptitude install prads

Summary

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