f3read command not found

Introduction

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

f3read: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: f3read: command not found

Solutions to f3read: command not found

How To Fix f3read: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu f3read is provided by f3 package.

f3 is:

F3 (Fight Flash Fraud or Fight Fake Flash) tests the full capacity of a flash card (flash drive, flash disk, pendrive).

F3 writes to the card and then checks if can read it. It will assure you have not been bought a card with a smaller capacity than stated. Note that the main goal of F3 is not to fix your removable media. However, there are resources to mark the invalid areas.

This package provides these executables: f3write, f3read, f3brew, f3fix and f3probe.

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

sudo apt-get -y install f3

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

You can also use apt command to install f3.

sudo apt -y install f3

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

sudo aptitude install f3

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix f3read command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.