tox-bootstrapd command not found

Introduction

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

tox-bootstrapd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tox-bootstrapd: command not found

Solutions to tox-bootstrapd: command not found

How To Fix tox-bootstrapd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu tox-bootstrapd is provided by toxcore-utils package.

toxcore-utils is:

Tox provides an encrypted, distributed, and extensible peer-to-peer platform that can be used for various forms of communication. Tox is intended to be used as a multimedia messenger, but many people have shown that Tox can be used for a lot more than just instant messaging.

This package contains DHT bootstrap tools, including DHT_bootstrap and tox-bootstrapd.

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

sudo apt-get -y install toxcore-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install toxcore-utils.

sudo apt -y install toxcore-utils

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

sudo aptitude install toxcore-utils

Summary

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