scanmem command not found

Introduction

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

scanmem: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scanmem: command not found

Solutions to scanmem: command not found

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

In Ubuntu scanmem is provided by scanmem package.

scanmem is:

Scanmem is a simple interactive debugging utility for Linux, used to locate the address of a variable in a running process. This can be used for the analysis or modification of a hostile process on a compromised machine, for reverse engineering, or as a “pokefinder” to cheat at video games.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scanmem

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

You can also use apt command to install scanmem.

sudo apt -y install scanmem

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

sudo aptitude install scanmem

Summary

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