dc3dd command not found

Introduction

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

dc3dd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dc3dd: command not found

Solutions to dc3dd: command not found

How To Fix dc3dd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dc3dd is provided by dc3dd package.

dc3dd is:

dc3dd is a patched version of GNU dd with added features for computer forensics:

• on the fly hashing (md5, sha-1, sha-256, and sha-512);
• possibility to write errors to a file;
• group errors in the error log;
• pattern wiping;
• progress report;
• possibility to split output.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dc3dd

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

You can also use apt command to install dc3dd.

sudo apt -y install dc3dd

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

sudo aptitude install dc3dd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dc3dd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.