elfx86exts command not found

Introduction

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

elfx86exts: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: elfx86exts: command not found

Solutions to elfx86exts: command not found

How To Fix elfx86exts: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu elfx86exts is provided by elfx86exts package.

elfx86exts is:

Disassemble a binary containing x86 instructions and print out which extensions it uses. Despite the utterly misleading name, this tool supports ELF and MachO binaries, and perhaps PE-format ones as well. (It used to be more limited.)

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

sudo apt-get -y install elfx86exts

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

You can also use apt command to install elfx86exts.

sudo apt -y install elfx86exts

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

sudo aptitude install elfx86exts

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix elfx86exts command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.