stenokeys command not found

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

Introduction

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

stenokeys: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: stenokeys: command not found

Solutions to stenokeys: command not found

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

In Ubuntu stenokeys is provided by stenographer-common package.

stenographer-common is:

Stenographer is a full-packet-capture utility for buffering packets to disk for intrusion detection and incident response purposes. It provides a high-performance implementation of NIC-to-disk packet writing, handles deleting those files as disk fills up, and provides methods for reading back specific sets of packets quickly and easily.

This package contains configuration common to client and server and creates the Unix user and group needed for operation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install stenographer-common

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

You can also use apt command to install stenographer-common.

sudo apt -y install stenographer-common

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

sudo aptitude install stenographer-common

Summary

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