telnetd command not found

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

Introduction

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

telnetd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: telnetd: command not found

In Ubuntu telnetd is provided by inetutils-telnetd package.

inetutils-telnetd is:

The telnetd program is a server which supports the DARPA telnet interactive communication protocol.

This implementation supports Kerberos, for authentication and encryption.

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

sudo apt-get -y install inetutils-telnetd

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

You can also use apt command to install inetutils-telnetd.

sudo apt -y install inetutils-telnetd

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

sudo aptitude install inetutils-telnetd

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