catchsegv command not found

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

Introduction

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

catchsegv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: catchsegv: command not found

Solutions to catchsegv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu catchsegv is provided by glibc-tools package.

glibc-tools is:

This package contains tools and library formerly provided by glibc that either have been deprecated or moved out from the project.

Currently it contains:

  • The ’libSigSegv’ library.
  • The ‘catchsegv’ script.

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

sudo apt-get -y install glibc-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install glibc-tools.

sudo apt -y install glibc-tools

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

sudo aptitude install glibc-tools

Summary

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