cksfv command not found

Introduction

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

cksfv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cksfv: command not found

Solutions to cksfv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cksfv is provided by cksfv package.

cksfv is:

SFV, Simple File Verification, uses crc32 checksums to verify that files are intact. cksfv automates the task of generating and checking .sfv sheets. For integrity, md5 checksums are probably a better alternative, but sfv is a widely used method for verification on the USENET binary newsgroups and other places.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cksfv

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

You can also use apt command to install cksfv.

sudo apt -y install cksfv

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

sudo aptitude install cksfv

Summary

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