sigscan command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sigscan command not found error message

Introduction

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

sigscan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sigscan: command not found

In Ubuntu sigscan is provided by libsigscan-utils package.

libsigscan-utils is:

libsigscan is a library for binary signature scanning, using simple offset/string-based signatures.

This package contains sigscan, a command line tool that uses libsigscan to find binary signatures in files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsigscan-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libsigscan-utils.

sudo apt -y install libsigscan-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libsigscan-utils

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