dislocker-bek command not found

Introduction

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

dislocker-bek: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dislocker-bek: command not found

Solutions to dislocker-bek: command not found

How To Fix dislocker-bek: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dislocker-bek is provided by dislocker package.

dislocker is:

Dislocker has been designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions under a Linux system. The driver used to read volumes encrypted in Windows system versions of the Vista to 10 and BitLocker-To-Go encrypted partitions, that’s USB/FAT32 partitions.

The software works with driver composed of a library, with multiple binaries using this library. Decrypting the partition, you have to give it a mount point where, once keys are decrypted, a file named dislocker-file appears. This file is a virtual NTFS partition, so you can mount it as any NTFS partition and then read from or write to it. Writing to the NTFS virtual file will change the underlying BitLocker partition content. To use dislocker-find Ruby is required.

This tool is useful in cryptography managing and forensics investigations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dislocker

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

You can also use apt command to install dislocker.

sudo apt -y install dislocker

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

sudo aptitude install dislocker

Summary

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