tracetopends command not found

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

Introduction

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

tracetopends: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tracetopends: command not found

In Ubuntu tracetopends is provided by libtrace-tools package.

libtrace-tools is:

libtrace is a library for trace processing. These tools perform many common tasks that are required when analysing and manipulating network traces.

Multiple input methods and formats are supported including device capture, raw and gz-compressed traces, and sockets.

libtrace is developed by the WAND Network Research Group at Waikato University in New Zealand.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtrace-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libtrace-tools.

sudo apt -y install libtrace-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libtrace-tools

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