psteal.py command not found

Introduction

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

psteal.py: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: psteal.py: command not found

Solutions to psteal.py: command not found

How To Fix psteal.py: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu psteal.py is provided by python3-plaso package.

python3-plaso is:

Plaso (plaso langar að safna öllu) is the Python based back-end engine used by tools such as log2timeline for automatic creation of a super timelines. The goal of log2timeline (and thus plaso) is to provide a single tool that can parse various log files and forensic artifacts from computers and related systems, such as network equipment to produce a single correlated timeline. This timeline can then be easily analysed by forensic investigators/analysts, speeding up investigations by correlating the vast amount of information found on an average computer system.

This package contains a Plaso installation for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-plaso

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-plaso.

sudo apt -y install python3-plaso

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

sudo aptitude install python3-plaso

Summary

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