bootcdwrite command not found

Introduction

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

bootcdwrite: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bootcdwrite: command not found

Solutions to bootcdwrite: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bootcdwrite is provided by bootcd package.

bootcd is:

Different boot configuration are supportet (efi, old bios, secure boot). bootcdwrite creates an ISO life-cd file called bootcd using an overlayfs. bootcdflopcp writes changes from overlayfs to floppy disk, when running from bootcd. bootcd2disk writes bootable disks (with or without lvm, ext2, ext3, ext4, vfat, swap).

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

sudo apt-get -y install bootcd

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

You can also use apt command to install bootcd.

sudo apt -y install bootcd

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

sudo aptitude install bootcd

Summary

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