smistrip command not found

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

Introduction

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

smistrip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smistrip: command not found

Solutions to smistrip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smistrip is provided by smistrip package.

smistrip is:

The smistrip program is used to extract MIB and PIB module files from ASCII documents like RFCs or Internet Drafts. Modules are identified by a starting ASN.1 DEFINITIONS clause and the matching END clause. The output is written to files named by the modules’ names.

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

sudo apt-get -y install smistrip

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

You can also use apt command to install smistrip.

sudo apt -y install smistrip

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

sudo aptitude install smistrip

Summary

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