hexcompare command not found

Introduction

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

hexcompare: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hexcompare: command not found

Solutions to hexcompare: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hexcompare is provided by hexcompare package.

hexcompare is:

hexcompare is a curses-based utility to compare and identify differences between two binary files. These differences are then represented visually with an interactive block diagram. Hexcompare is useful in forensics cases when you have two files and you want to compare them to find out whether they are identicals or similars.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hexcompare

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

You can also use apt command to install hexcompare.

sudo apt -y install hexcompare

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

sudo aptitude install hexcompare

Summary

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