sniff command not found

Introduction

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

sniff: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sniff: command not found

Solutions to sniff: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sniff is provided by python3-dogtail package.

python3-dogtail is:

dogtail is a GUI test tool and automation framework written in Python. It uses Accessibility (a11y) technologies to communicate with desktop applications. dogtail scripts are written in Python.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-dogtail

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-dogtail

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

sudo aptitude install python3-dogtail

Summary

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