ewfmount command not found

Introduction

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

ewfmount: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ewfmount: command not found

Solutions to ewfmount: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ewfmount is provided by ewf-tools package.

ewf-tools is:

Libewf is a library with support for reading and writing the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF). This library allows you to read media information of EWF files in the SMART (EWF-S01) format and the EnCase (EWF-E01) format. It supports files created by EnCase 1 to 6, linen and FTK Imager. The libewf is useful for forensics investigations.

This package contains tools to acquire, verify and export EWF files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ewf-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install ewf-tools

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

sudo aptitude install ewf-tools

Summary

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