crashme command not found

Introduction

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

crashme: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: crashme: command not found

Solutions to crashme: command not found

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

In Ubuntu crashme is provided by crashme package.

crashme is:

crashme generates strings of random bytes and then attempts to execute them. It is used to test stability of the kernel.

WARNING While the Linux kernel has been known to survive days and weeks of crashme, IT IS NOT GUARANTEED THAT YOUR SYSTEM WILL SURVIVE! DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO CRASH YOUR COMPUTER.

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

sudo apt-get -y install crashme

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

You can also use apt command to install crashme.

sudo apt -y install crashme

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

sudo aptitude install crashme

Summary

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