xpl2gpl command not found

Introduction

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

xpl2gpl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xpl2gpl: command not found

Solutions to xpl2gpl: command not found

How To Fix xpl2gpl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xpl2gpl is provided by tcptrace package.

tcptrace is:

Tcptrace is a tool for analyzing and reporting on tcpdump (or other libpcap) dump files. It can summarize the data or generate graph data for use with the gnuplot tool from the gnuplot package. Graph data can be created for throughput, RTT, time sequences, segment size, and cwin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tcptrace

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

You can also use apt command to install tcptrace.

sudo apt -y install tcptrace

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

sudo aptitude install tcptrace

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xpl2gpl command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.