bruteforce-wallet command not found

Introduction

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

bruteforce-wallet: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bruteforce-wallet: command not found

Solutions to bruteforce-wallet: command not found

How To Fix bruteforce-wallet: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bruteforce-wallet is provided by bruteforce-wallet package.

bruteforce-wallet is:

bruteforce-wallet try to find the password of an encrypted Peercoin (or Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc…) wallet file. It can be used in two ways:

- Try all possible passwords given a charset.
- Try all passwords in a file (dictionary).

bruteforce-wallet have the following features:

- You can specify the number of threads to use when cracking a file.
- Sending a USR1 signal to a running bruteforce-wallet process
  makes it print progress and continue.
- There are an exhaustive mode and a dictionary mode.

In the exhaustive mode the program tries to decrypt one of the encrypted addresses in the wallet by trying all the possible passwords. It is especially useful if you know something about the password (i.e. you forgot a part of your password but still remember most of it). Finding the password of a wallet without knowing anything about it would take way too much time (unless the password is really short and/or weak). There are some command line options to specify:

- The minimum password length to try.
- The maximum password length to try.
- The beginning of the password.
- The end of the password.
- The character set to use (among the characters of the current locale).

In dictionary mode the program tries to decrypt one of the encrypted addresses in the wallet by trying all the passwords contained in a file. The file must have one password per line.

This package is useful for finding the password for a Peercoin encrypted wallet file (or Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc …) (i.e. wallet.dat).

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

sudo apt-get -y install bruteforce-wallet

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

You can also use apt command to install bruteforce-wallet.

sudo apt -y install bruteforce-wallet

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

sudo aptitude install bruteforce-wallet

Summary

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