vanessa_socket_pipe command not found

Introduction

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

vanessa_socket_pipe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vanessa_socket_pipe: command not found

Solutions to vanessa_socket_pipe: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vanessa_socket_pipe is provided by libvanessa-socket-pipe package.

libvanessa-socket-pipe is:

A TCP/IP pipe is a user space programme that listens for TCP/IP connections on port on the local host and when a client connects makes a connection to a TCP port, possibly on another host. Once both connections are established data sent on one connection is relayed to the other, hence forming a bi-directional pipe.

Uses include enabling connections to specific ports on hosts behind a packet filter.

This code is intended primarily as an example of how many of the features of libvanessa_socket work.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvanessa-socket-pipe

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

You can also use apt command to install libvanessa-socket-pipe.

sudo apt -y install libvanessa-socket-pipe

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

sudo aptitude install libvanessa-socket-pipe

Summary

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