ext3grep command not found

Introduction

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

ext3grep: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ext3grep: command not found

Solutions to ext3grep: command not found

How To Fix ext3grep: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ext3grep is provided by ext3grep package.

ext3grep is:

ext3grep is a simple tool intended to aid anyone who accidentally deletes a file on an ext3 filesystem, only to find that they wanted it shortly thereafter.

This package is useful in forensics investigations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ext3grep

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

You can also use apt command to install ext3grep.

sudo apt -y install ext3grep

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

sudo aptitude install ext3grep

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ext3grep command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.