cmospwd command not found

Introduction

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

cmospwd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cmospwd: command not found

Solutions to cmospwd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cmospwd is provided by cmospwd package.

cmospwd is:

CmosPwd is a cross-platform tool to decrypt password stored in CMOS used to access a computer’s BIOS setup.

This application should work out of the box on most modern systems, but some more esoteric BIOSes may not be supported or may require additional steps.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cmospwd

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

You can also use apt command to install cmospwd.

sudo apt -y install cmospwd

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

sudo aptitude install cmospwd

Summary

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