rst command not found

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

Introduction

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

rst: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rst: command not found

Solutions to rst: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rst is provided by bro-aux package.

bro-aux is:

This package provides handy auxiliary programs related to the use of the Bro Network Security Monitor.

The “adtrace” utility is used to compute the network address that compose the internal and extern nets that bro is monitoring. The “bro-cut” utility reads ASCII Bro logs on standard input and outputs them with only the specified columns (if no column names are specified, then all columns are output). The “nfcollector” and “ftwire2bro” utilities are for dealing with Bro’s custom file format for storing NetFlow records.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bro-aux

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

You can also use apt command to install bro-aux.

sudo apt -y install bro-aux

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

sudo aptitude install bro-aux

Summary

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