tnftp command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
tnftp: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: tnftp: command not found
Solutions to tnftp: command not found
How To Fix tnftp: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu tnftp is provided by tnftp package.
tnftp is:
tnftp is what many users affectionately call the enhanced ftp client in NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org).
This package is a `port’ of the NetBSD ftp client to other systems.
The enhancements over the standard ftp client in 4.4BSD include:
* command-line editing within ftp
* command-line fetching of URLS, including support for:
- http proxies (c.f: $http_proxy, $ftp_proxy)
- authentication
* context sensitive command and filename completion
* dynamic progress bar
* IPv6 support (from the WIDE project)
* modification time preservation
* paging of local and remote files, and of directory listings
(c.f: lpage', page’, pdir') * passive mode support, with fallback to active mode * set option’ override of ftp environment variables
* TIS Firewall Toolkit gate ftp proxy support (c.f: gate') * transfer-rate throttling (c.f: -T’, `rate')
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install tnftp
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install tnftp.
sudo apt -y install tnftp
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install tnftp
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix tnftp command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.