magicsort command not found

Introduction

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

magicsort: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: magicsort: command not found

Solutions to magicsort: command not found

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

In Ubuntu magicsort is provided by magicrescue package.

magicrescue is:

Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to recover and calls an external program to extract them. It looks at “magic bytes” (file patterns) in file contents, so it can be used both as an undelete utility and for recovering a corrupted drive or partition. As long as the file data is there, it will find it.

Magic Rescue uses files called ‘recipes’. These files have strings and commands to identify and extract data from devices or forensics images. So, you can write your own recipes. Currently, there are the following recipes: avi, canon-cr2, elf, flac, gpl, gzip, jpeg-exif, jpeg-jfif, mbox, mbox-mozilla-inbox, mbox-mozilla-sent, mp3-id3v1, mp3-id3v2, msoffice, nikon-raw, perl, png, ppm, sqlite and zip.

This package provides magicrescue, dupemap and magicsort commands. magicrescue is a carver and is useful in forensics investigations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install magicrescue

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

You can also use apt command to install magicrescue.

sudo apt -y install magicrescue

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

sudo aptitude install magicrescue

Summary

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