ophcrack-cli command not found

Introduction

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

ophcrack-cli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ophcrack-cli: command not found

Solutions to ophcrack-cli: command not found

How To Fix ophcrack-cli: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ophcrack-cli is provided by ophcrack-cli package.

ophcrack-cli is:

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.

It works for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.

This package contains ophcrack with command line interface only.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ophcrack-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install ophcrack-cli.

sudo apt -y install ophcrack-cli

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

sudo aptitude install ophcrack-cli

Summary

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