wput command not found

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

Introduction

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

wput: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wput: command not found

In Ubuntu wput is provided by wput package.

wput is:

Wput is a tiny ftp-client, that uploads files or directories to a remote ftp-server.

Main features are: resuming, time-stamping, wget-like interface, proxy-support and speed-limit.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wput

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

You can also use apt command to install wput.

sudo apt -y install wput

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

sudo aptitude install wput

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